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Dassel, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dassel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55325. The Survey maps it on the Dassel quadrangle. 1,472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Dassel within Meeker County

On record in Dassel

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Dassel grew from 1,469 to 1,472 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,469
20201,472+3 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dassel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nussbaum Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Meeker County

Storms near this place

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dassel in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 36 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011HailDassel1 hurt, $500In addition, a driver was injured when hail the size of a baseball hit his vehicle's windshield.
September 2005HailDassel$800,000Hail dented cars, along with roofs and siding of many houses. Some windows broken. Property damage total is for the Dassel area on 9-21-05.
July 2008Tornado (EF0)Dassel$200,000Damage survey team reported downed trees in Meeker County. The tornado continued into Wright County, where a roof was ripped off a home and some sheds were destroyed.
August 2023HailDassel$100,000A photo of hail next to a ruler measured 3.75 inches with the largest stone near Hwy 15. There was damage to the siding on the west side of the house.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDassel$100,000Semitrailer blown off highway 12. Estimated windspeed.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindDassel$25,000A large shed was damaged, including a tree that blew down on a vehicle south of Dassel.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDassel$10,00070 foot HAM radio tower toppled.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDassel$5,000A few large trees and power lines were blown down in Dassel.
June 2025HailDassel-Multiple reports of quarter sized hail south of Dassel.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDassel-Delayed report, time estimated from radar. Tree down across road.
August 2023HailDassel-A picture of hail next to a ruler on social media showed hail slightly larger than 3 inches.
July 2023HailDassel-Golfball size hail was reported 2 miles north of Dassel via social media.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindDassel-A tree was blown across a road north of Dassel.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDassel-A few trees were blown down near Dassel.
June 2007HailDassel-Small branches felled as well.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindDassel-Trees toppled.
September 2005HailDassel-Dime sized hail was reported on the west side of Lake Jennie.
September 2005HailDassel-A law enforcement officer parked on 183rd Street reported that golf ball sized hail fell for 14 minutes.
September 2005HailDassel-Quarter sized hail was reported 1 mile north of Lamson.
May 2004HailDassel-The time was estimated.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDassel-Several six inch diameter branches down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindDassel-Tree down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindDassel-Eighty foot HAM radio tower downed. Few shingles off house. Large tree toppled. Trained observer watched downburst as it approached.
September 2002HailDassel-Hailed on and off for 30 minutes.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Dassel-Tree blown onto house. Barn damaged.
August 2025HailDassel-no account filed
March 2017HailDassel-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindDassel-no account filed
May 2015HailDassel-no account filed
August 2013HailDassel-no account filed
August 2012HailDassel-no account filed
July 2011HailDassel-no account filed
July 2011HailDassel-no account filed
July 2011HailDassel-no account filed
May 2008HailDassel-no account filed
June 2008HailDassel-no account filed
July 2008HailDassel-no account filed
September 2007HailDassel-no account filed
May 2006HailDassel-no account filed
September 2005HailDassel-no account filed
July 2003HailDassel-no account filed
April 2002HailDassel-no account filed
April 2002HailDassel-no account filed
August 2002HailDassel-no account filed
September 2002HailDassel-no account filed
September 2002HailDassel-no account filed
September 2002HailDassel-no account filed
September 2002HailDassel-no account filed
June 2001HailDassel-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDassel-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindDassel-no account filed
August 1997HailDassel-no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindDassel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meeker County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
West View Terrace0.4 miles10
Jennie5.5 miles10
Darwin5.6 miles10
Lamson6.5 miles11
Casey7.2 miles10
Kingston8.0 miles10
Greenleaf11.8 miles11
Forest City12.1 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on DasselAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1004350The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 642646. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.