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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.

Dodge Center within Dodge County

Population over time

2 figures

Dodge 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,670
20202,844+174 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Storms near this place

36 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$8,500,000no account filed
August 2007FloodDodge Center$600,000Law enforcement officials reported some roads washed out or still under water.
July 2009HailDodge Center$222,000no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodDodge Center$100,000Flooding 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 2019HailDodge Center$50,000Two inch diameter hail was reported in Dodge Center.
June 2019HailDodge Center$50,000Two inch diameter hail was reported in Dodge Center.
June 2019HailDodge Center$50,000Tennis ball sized hail was reported in Dodge Center.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$45,000Local officials reported power poles down near Dodge Center.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$18,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$6,000Two 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 2014Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$5,000A small portion of a roof was ripped off a building in Dodge Center. A one foot diameter tree was also uprooted.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$4,000Trees 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 2014Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$3,000An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred in Dodge Center. Several trees were blown down with at least one blocking a roadway.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$2,000Trees were blown down in Dodge Center.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$2,000In Dodge Center, a tree limb was blown down onto a house causing a power outage.
June 2001HailDodge Center$1,250no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$1,000Trees were blown down in Dodge Center.
May 2006HailDodge Center$1,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$1,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindDodge Center$500no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDodge Center-The public reported a 58 mph wind gust south of Dodge Center.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDodge Center-Public reported large tree limb down near Dodge Center via social media picture.
August 2020Funnel CloudDodge Center-A funnel cloud was sighted over Dodge Center.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDodge Center-The automated weather observing equipment at the Dodge Center airport recorded a wind gust of 69 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDodge Center-The automated weather observing equipment at the Dodge Center airport measured a wind gust of 58 mph.
April 2017HailDodge Center-Egg sized hail was reported in Dodge Center.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDodge Center-The Dodge County emergency manager reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDodge Center-The automated weather observing equipment at the Dodge Center Airport measured a wind gust of 58 mph.
September 2010Heavy RainDodge Center-Rainfall totaled 8.08 inches, which set a record for the highest daily precipitation amount for the month of September.
June 2019HailDodge Center-no account filed
April 2004HailDodge Center-no account filed
May 2004HailDodge Center-no account filed
July 2002Funnel CloudDodge Center-no account filed
May 1998HailDodge Center-no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F0)Dodge Center-no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudDodge Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Heritage Estates0.2 miles11
Valley View Park0.4 miles11
Wasioja4.1 miles11
Vlasaty4.4 miles7
Eden4.4 miles11
Kasson5.5 miles11
South Fork Homes5.5 miles11
Mantorville6.0 miles11

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 CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231497The 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.