Dovray, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dovray Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56125. It lies near Duck Lakebed. The Survey maps it on the Dovray quadrangle. 58 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,535 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDovray grew from 57 to 58 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 | 57 | |
| 2020 | 58 | +1 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Dovray quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dovray: 6 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Johnson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Peltala Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rupp No 1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rupp No 5 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sweetman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
33 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dovray in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 60 mph were measured at a Minnesota Road Weather Information System site near Dovray. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Dovray | - | Dime to nickel size hail fell northeast of Dovray. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Dovray | - | Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| October 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN038 3 miles west of Dovray. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN038 2 miles west of Dovray. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN038 2 miles west of Dovray. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Dovray | - | Another brief tornado spun up 4 miles east-northeast of Dovray, around one-third mile southeast of the intersection of 151st Street and 290th Avenue. The tornado traveled north over open fields causing damage to crops, and dissipated just south of 171st Street, 5 miles northeast of Dovray. From Sentinel satellite imagery, the average path width was found to be 20 yards. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Dovray | - | Identified from Sentinel satellite imagery and confirmed by ground survey, a tornado spun up one-half mile southwest of Dovray just east of 250th Avenue. The tornado moved north over marsh and farmland, and caused damage to crops and cattails. The tornado dissipated one-half mile west of Dovray, just north of State Highway 30. The average path width was 20 yards. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | The thunderstorm wind gust was measured by Minnesota RWIS station MN038 2 miles west of Dovray. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | Minnesota RWIS station MN038 3 miles west of Dovray measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Dovray | - | Hail accompanied by one inch of rainfall. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Dovray | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 8 inch diameter branches blown down. The winds also blew shingles off roofs, and blew the back door from a barn. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Dovray | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Dovray | - | 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 Dovray | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231429 | 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 642911. 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.





