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.
Population over time
2 figuresDexter 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 341 | |
| 2020 | 324 | -17 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hemnermeiter Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Lightning | Dexter | $500,000 | A lightning strike destroyed one of three blades on a wind turbine near Dexter. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dexter | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Dexter | $6,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Dexter | $1,500 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Dexter | - | The public reported quarter sized hail 1 mile east of Dexter. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dexter | - | The Mesonent station at Dexter on Interstate 90 measured a peak wind gust of 69 mph. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dexter | - | A trained spotter reported healthy pine trees snapped at the trunk at the cemetery in Dexter. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dexter | - | A 73 mph wind gust was measured by a mesonet sensor just northeast of Dexter. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dexter | - | A mesonet station near Dexter measured a 65 mph wind gust. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dexter | - | The mesonet weather observing equipment near Dexter measured a wind gust of 66 mph. |
| June 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Dexter | - | A funnel cloud was spotted near Dexter. |
| June 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Dexter | - | Another funnel cloud was spotted near Dexter. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Dexter | - | Quarter size hail was estimated by Law Enforcement. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Dexter | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Dexter | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Dexter | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Dexter | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Dexter | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dexter | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dexter | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Dexter | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renova | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Elkton | 3.9 miles | 7 | |
| Grand Meadow | 7.1 miles | 7 | |
| Sargeant | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Brownsdale | 8.9 miles | 9 | |
| Nicolville | 9.7 miles | 9 | |
| Rose Creek | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Adams | 10.6 miles | 8 |
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 Dexter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1924343 | The 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.




