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Dilworth, Minnesota

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dilworth City. It lies in ZIP code area 56529. The Survey maps it on the Dilworth quadrangle. 4,612 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Dilworth within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Dilworth grew from 4,024 to 4,612 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
20104,024
20204,612+588 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 24 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dilworth in 2004, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 May 2004Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dilworth: 5 producers. 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
Benedict Dredge Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Connlley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Glyndon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grant Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Olness Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dilworth in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2000Flash FloodDilworth$500,000After 6 to 8 inches of rain fell across the Dilworth area, many basements filled with water.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindDilworth$3,000Numerous trees were blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDilworth$2,000Several large trees were blown down.
May 2024FloodDilworth$500Dilworth gage, on the Buffalo River. Crested at 12.5 ft on May 30th.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDilworth-Crop and tree damage was apparent across southeastern Oakport and southwestern Moland townships. Small hail and winds estimated to 75 mph. Numerous large branches broken down, a few mature box elder and ash trees uprooted. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDilworth-Large tree branches, power lines, and sections of fencing were blown down between north Moorhead and Dilworth.
June 2019HailDilworth-Pea to dime sized hail was reported.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindDilworth-A few trees were snapped or blown over.
August 2017Funnel CloudDilworth-A wall cloud and funnel were viewed by multiple sources in the Fargo-Moorhead area. The Fargo airport air traffic control tower estimated the funnel to be about 5 miles east of Fargo.
August 2016HailDilworth-Very heavy rain was reported along with a few large hailstones.
April 2012Funnel CloudDilworth-Multiple funnels were observed across central Clay County from near Felton towards Ulen and down through the Dilworth and Glyndon areas toward Downer. These occurred mainly from 1123 to 1200 CST. Most were short lived but one or more were persistent for several minutes.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindDilworth-The Dilworth MNDOT RWIS recorded a wind gust of 60 mph.
September 2007HailDilworth-Quarter to golf ball sized hail fell in Dilworth.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindDilworth-Tree branches were blown down.
July 2019HailDilworth-no account filed
May 2007HailDilworth-no account filed
May 2007HailDilworth-no account filed
July 1999HailDilworth-no account filed
July 1999HailDilworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Greenwood Communities2.6 miles25
Moorhead3.4 miles25
Finkle4.9 miles24
Oakport5.5 miles25
Glyndon6.6 miles23
Sabin7.2 miles24
Kragnes8.1 miles25
Rustad10.1 miles22

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 DilworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231001The 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 642816. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.