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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.

Dundas within Rice County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Dundas 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,367
20201,712+345 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional 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 ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeSTOLAF
20 April 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeBLACK DOG
7 December 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeBLOOMINGOTN FERRY 1
29 November 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeSORENSON LANDING 1
22 October 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeCO RD 18
12 October 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeCO RD 101

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rice 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shilling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rice County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDundas$150,000Roof 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 2012Thunderstorm WindDundas$15,000A 50 foot tree was blown down and landed on an automobile in Dundas, Minnesota.
April 2022HailDundas-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 2021Tornado (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 2018Thunderstorm WindDundas-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 2018Tornado (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 2016Thunderstorm WindDundas-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 2012Thunderstorm WindDundas-A large tree was uprooted east of Dundas.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDundas-A two foot diameter tree was blown down near Dundas, Minnesota.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDundas-Several large tree limbs were torn off a tree near Dundas, Minnesota.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDundas-Barn blown down along Co Rd 1. Estimated windspeed.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindDundas-Power lines blown down. Estimated windspeed.
July 2023HailDundas-no account filed
May 2017HailDundas-no account filed
June 2012HailDundas-no account filed
June 2012HailDundas-no account filed
April 2006HailDundas-no account filed
August 2006HailDundas-no account filed
April 2004HailDundas-no account filed
May 2004HailDundas-no account filed
June 1998HailDundas-no account filed
June 1998HailDundas-no account filed
June 1998HailDundas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rice 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
Northfield2.9 miles11
Comus4.3 miles10
Millersburg6.9 miles10
Cannon City6.9 miles11
Little Chicago7.2 miles10
Hazelwood7.8 miles11
Nerstrand9.3 miles10
Faribault9.9 miles10

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 DundasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2050629The 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.