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Dexter, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dexter City. It lies in ZIP code area 55926. The Survey maps it on the Dexter quadrangle. 324 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,421 feet above sea level.

Dexter within Mower County

Population over time

2 figures

Dexter fell from 341 to 324 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
2010341
2020324-17 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Dexter: 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
Hemnermeiter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mower County

Storms near this place

21 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dexter in 21 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 2013LightningDexter$500,000A lightning strike destroyed one of three blades on a wind turbine near Dexter.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindDexter$25,000no account filed
August 2005Tornado (F0)Dexter$6,000no account filed
July 2003HailDexter$1,500no account filed
April 2026HailDexter-The public reported quarter sized hail 1 mile east of Dexter.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDexter-The Mesonent station at Dexter on Interstate 90 measured a peak wind gust of 69 mph.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDexter-A trained spotter reported healthy pine trees snapped at the trunk at the cemetery in Dexter.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDexter-A 73 mph wind gust was measured by a mesonet sensor just northeast of Dexter.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindDexter-A mesonet station near Dexter measured a 65 mph wind gust.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDexter-The mesonet weather observing equipment near Dexter measured a wind gust of 66 mph.
June 2013Funnel CloudDexter-A funnel cloud was spotted near Dexter.
June 2013Funnel CloudDexter-Another funnel cloud was spotted near Dexter.
August 2007HailDexter-Quarter size hail was estimated by Law Enforcement.
March 2017HailDexter-no account filed
September 2014HailDexter-no account filed
September 2014HailDexter-no account filed
June 2014HailDexter-no account filed
July 2012HailDexter-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindDexter-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDexter-no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F0)Dexter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mower 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
Renova3.5 miles9
Elkton3.9 miles7
Grand Meadow7.1 miles7
Sargeant7.9 miles7
Brownsdale8.9 miles9
Nicolville9.7 miles9
Rose Creek10.4 miles9
Adams10.6 miles8

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 DexterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924343The 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 642794. 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.