BlockDoran, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Doran City. It lies in ZIP code area 56522. The Survey maps it on the Doran quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.
On record in Doran
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Stiklestad United Lutheran Churchlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresDoran fell from 55 to 36 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 | 55 | |
| 2020 | 36 | -19 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1951 USGS Campbell quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Doran quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Storms near this place
19 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doran in 19 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doran | - | A personal weather station measured a peak gust to 67 mph. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doran | - | Strong winds were reported in Doran. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doran | - | A tree was blown down. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Doran | - | A few dime to quarter sized hailstones fell. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doran | - | A large tree was uprooted. |
| July 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Doran | - | Spotters located two miles southwest of Doran viewed and photographed the tornado near highway 75 west-southwest of Doran. The tornado briefly touched down in a bean field. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doran | - | Several large tree branches and tree limbs were broken off by the strong winds. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Doran | - | Tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2010 | Tornado (EF4) | Doran | - | This tornado began in Richland County, North Dakota, at 625 pm CDT, where it had a path length of 2.5 miles. It continued in Wilkin County, Minnesota, where it finally lifted about 2.5 miles southwest of Doran. The total path length was roughly five miles and peak winds were estimated at 175 mph. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Doran | - | A brief tornado touchdown in an open field just east of highway 75 was reported to the sheriff's office. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Doran | - | Two to four inches of rain caused the Doran Slough to flood. The slough spread across fields and farm access roads mainly south of county highway 158 and west of U.S. Highway 75. Roadbed and field erosion was evident southward to state highway 55. |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Doran | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Doran | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Doran | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Doran | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Doran | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Flash Flood | Doran | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Doran | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Doran | - | 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.
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 Doran | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230965 | 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 642891. 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.