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Dudley, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clifton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56258. The Survey maps it on the Dudley quadrangle. It stands 1,148 feet above sea level.

Dudley within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

In the county-history sources

458 words on this township

History of Lyon County, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Clifton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Clifton Township - 458 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dudley between 2012 and 2013, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 May 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 December 2012Arson/incendiarism30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dudley: 1 producer. 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
Marshall Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

13 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dudley in 13 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2023HailDudley-Hail lasted for around 10 minutes, with a few stones up to half-dollar size.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDudley-Thunderstorm winds took down several 3-to-4-inch branches, and damaged 5 acres of beans.
July 2020Funnel CloudDudley-A wall cloud produced a brief funnel cloud.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDudley-Video of outdoor children play-set knocked over.
June 2013HailDudley-Hail was accompanied by 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDudley-Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage. The winds were accompanied by three quarter inch diameter hail.
June 2012HailDudley-Large hail caused minor damage to corn crops. The amount of crop damage would depend on the degree of future recovery and could not be determined.
June 2010HailDudley-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles.
June 2010HailDudley-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDudley-no account filed
June 2014HailDudley-no account filed
June 2010Funnel CloudDudley-no account filed
August 2009HailDudley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Village Park4.7 miles11
Garvin Park5.3 miles11
Marshall5.4 miles11
Amiret7.5 miles9
Green Valley7.9 miles9
Lynd10.9 miles9
Ghent12.2 miles9
Cottonwood12.7 miles9

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 DudleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19881065The 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 654678. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.