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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.

Dovray within Murray County

Population over time

2 figures

Dovray 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.

YearPeople Change
201057
202058+1 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peltala PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rupp No 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rupp No 5 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sweetman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

33 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDovray-Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 60 mph were measured at a Minnesota Road Weather Information System site near Dovray.
August 2023HailDovray-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 2023HailDovray-Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindDovray-A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN038 3 miles west of Dovray.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindDovray-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN038 2 miles west of Dovray.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindDovray-A thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph was measured by Minnesota Road Weather Information System site MN038 2 miles west of Dovray.
August 2021Tornado (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 2021Thunderstorm WindDovray-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindDovray-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindDovray-A narrow path of crop damage, possibly related to a miso vortex within a broader wind field, was identified using Sentinel satellite imagery.
August 2021Tornado (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 2021Thunderstorm WindDovray-The thunderstorm wind gust was measured by Minnesota RWIS station MN038 2 miles west of Dovray.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDovray-Minnesota RWIS station MN038 3 miles west of Dovray measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph.
April 2019HailDovray-Hail accompanied by one inch of rainfall.
April 2011HailDovray-Large hail covered the ground.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDovray-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 2023HailDovray-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
May 2005HailDovray-no account filed
May 2004HailDovray-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDovray-no account filed
July 1998HailDovray-no account filed
July 1996HailDovray-no account filed
July 1994HailDovray-no account filed
July 1994HailDovray-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Murray 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
Currie6.3 miles10
Owanka8.4 miles10
The Lakes8.5 miles10
Avoca8.8 miles7
Lime Creek11.3 miles7
Slayton11.8 miles7
Fulda12.9 miles7
Wirock14.0 miles7

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 DovrayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2231429The 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.