Dundas, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Dundas City. It lies in ZIP code area 55019. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northfield quadrangle. 1,712 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.
On record in Dundas
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 5 records
Archibald Milllisted 1976
Edward T. Archibald Houselisted 1976
Ault Storelisted 1982
Church of the Holy Cross-Episcopallisted 1982
Wiliam Martin Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresDundas grew from 1,367 to 1,712 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 | 1,367 | |
| 2020 | 1,712 | +345 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Faribault quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dundas between 2001 and 2012, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | STOLAF |
| 20 April 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | BLACK DOG |
| 7 December 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | BLOOMINGOTN FERRY 1 |
| 29 November 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | SORENSON LANDING 1 |
| 22 October 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | CO RD 18 |
| 12 October 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge | CO RD 101 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dundas: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shilling Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dundas in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundas | $150,000 | Roof off house, three barns down, roofs off three storage buildings, one storage building blown 1/4 mile, garage collapsed, several hundred trees downed. A 56 knot gust was measured in downtown Northfield at the Public Safety Building, with 40 to 50 knot winds persisting for another 10 minutes. Wind was stronger just outside Northfield, where stronger wind and the most severe damage occurred. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundas | $15,000 | A 50 foot tree was blown down and landed on an automobile in Dundas, Minnesota. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Dundas | - | There was a swath of large hail, up to ping pong size, that fell from near Dundas, northeast across the city of Northfield, and to the Dakota, Rice County line. |
| May 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Dundas | - | Two storm chasers took video of a narrow tornado. A damage survey revealed that several trees were broken or blown down. Law enforcement and spotters were also watching the tornado. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundas | - | A NWS storm survey, plus areal footage of drone and satellite data, concluded that there was sporadic downburst and inflow wind damage from south of Northfield, east and northeast to the Rice, Goodhue county line, west of Stanton. ||There was no definite path of damage but more widespread uprooted trees, power lines, and destroyed outbuildings and silos. The worst damage occurred to a farm near the intersection of 90th Street East, and Kellogg Ave. Two large silos and outbuildings were either blown over, or destroyed. The damage is consistent with wind gusts of 110 mph. Other damage was associated with flattened corn and soy bean fields. |
| September 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Dundas | - | A NWS storm survey, plus areal footage of drone and satellite data, concluded that an EF0 tornado tracked 5.5 miles from the intersection of I-35 and 130th Street West, northeast to the city of Dundas. This tornado started with damage to a billboard on I-35 with uprooted pine trees, then mainly damage to corn and soy bean fields, and it ended with several large trees uprooted in Dundas. The damage was consistent with EF0 damage with maximum wind speeds of 75 mph and a width of 75 yards. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundas | - | A few trees were reported blown down in the area of 145th & 150th just west of Hwy 3. There was also a large pine tree (about 2' diameter) that fell partially onto I-35, north of 130th Street. There were also some trees down in the City of Northfield. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundas | - | A large tree was uprooted east of Dundas. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundas | - | A two foot diameter tree was blown down near Dundas, Minnesota. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundas | - | Several large tree limbs were torn off a tree near Dundas, Minnesota. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundas | - | Barn blown down along Co Rd 1. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundas | - | Power lines blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Dundas | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Dundas | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northfield | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Comus | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Millersburg | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Cannon City | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Little Chicago | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Hazelwood | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Nerstrand | 9.3 miles | 10 | |
| Faribault | 9.9 miles | 10 |
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 Dundas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2050629 | 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 642978. 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.






