Dodge Center, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dodge Center City. It lies in ZIP code area 55927. The Survey maps it on the Dodge Center quadrangle. 2,844 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDodge Center grew from 2,670 to 2,844 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 | 2,670 | |
| 2020 | 2,844 | +174 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Dodge Center quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
36 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dodge Center in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $8,500,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Flood | Dodge Center | $600,000 | Law enforcement officials reported some roads washed out or still under water. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Dodge Center | $222,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Dodge Center | $100,000 | Flooding was limited mostly to ditches. Homes reported with water in basements. Railroad beds were washed out. Reports began coming into the dispatch center around 6 p.m. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Dodge Center | $50,000 | Two inch diameter hail was reported in Dodge Center. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Dodge Center | $50,000 | Two inch diameter hail was reported in Dodge Center. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Dodge Center | $50,000 | Tennis ball sized hail was reported in Dodge Center. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $45,000 | Local officials reported power poles down near Dodge Center. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $18,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $6,000 | Two out-buildings and some trees were blown down and the roof of a barn was blown off. A large 10 x 10 foot dumpster was moved 50 feet. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $5,000 | A small portion of a roof was ripped off a building in Dodge Center. A one foot diameter tree was also uprooted. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $4,000 | Trees were blown down and onto power lines in Dodge Center. The automated weather observing equipment at the airport measured a wind gust of 51 mph. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $3,000 | An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Dodge Center. Several trees were blown down with at least one blocking a roadway. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in Dodge Center. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $2,000 | In Dodge Center, a tree limb was blown down onto a house causing a power outage. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dodge Center | $1,250 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $1,000 | Trees were blown down in Dodge Center. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Dodge Center | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | - | The public reported a 58 mph wind gust south of Dodge Center. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | - | Public reported large tree limb down near Dodge Center via social media picture. |
| August 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Dodge Center | - | A funnel cloud was sighted over Dodge Center. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | - | The automated weather observing equipment at the Dodge Center airport recorded a wind gust of 69 mph. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | - | The automated weather observing equipment at the Dodge Center airport measured a wind gust of 58 mph. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Dodge Center | - | Egg sized hail was reported in Dodge Center. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | - | The Dodge County emergency manager reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodge Center | - | The automated weather observing equipment at the Dodge Center Airport measured a wind gust of 58 mph. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | Dodge Center | - | Rainfall totaled 8.08 inches, which set a record for the highest daily precipitation amount for the month of September. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Dodge Center | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Dodge Center | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dodge Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Funnel Cloud | Dodge Center | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Dodge Center | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Dodge Center | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Dodge Center | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage Estates | 0.2 miles | 11 | |
| Valley View Park | 0.4 miles | 11 | |
| Wasioja | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Vlasaty | 4.4 miles | 7 | |
| Eden | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Kasson | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| South Fork Homes | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Mantorville | 6.0 miles | 11 |
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 Dodge Center | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231497 | 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 642860. 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.
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.






