Dugdale, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grove Park-Tilden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56736. The Survey maps it on the Dugdale quadrangle. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

Dugdale within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Dugdale quadrangle1:24000
1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Dugdale between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,103 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
11 September 2012	Natural	62 acres	Glacial Ridge	GODFREY 7
9 July 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	RIDGE 4
9 July 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	RIDGE 1
9 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	RIDGE 2
9 July 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	RIDGE 3
6 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Glacial Ridge	CROOKSTON SNA
23 June 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	TILDEN 23
19 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Glacial Ridge	RACE TRACK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

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 Dugdale: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Arnold Olson Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bakken Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bradshaw Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crookston Cattle Co Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northern Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tilden Junction Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dugdale in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 3 hail. 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
June 2022	Hail	Dugdale	-	Received a public report of dime to quarter sized hail off and on over several minutes.
May 2008	Hail	Dugdale	-	The hail fell near Marcoux Corner at the intersection of Polk and Red Lake Counties.
May 2001	Hail	Dugdale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tilden Junction	1.2 miles	8
Maple Bay	5.0 miles	9
Mentor	6.6 miles	9
Benoit	6.8 miles	8
Melvin	8.6 miles	8
Gentilly	11.4 miles	10
Fertile	11.4 miles	8
Harold	12.2 miles	8

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 Dugdale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5312500	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 654680. 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.