BlockDunnell, Minnesota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lake Fremont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56127. The Survey maps it on the Dunnell quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDunnell fell from 167 to 133 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 | 167 | |
| 2020 | 133 | -34 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Dunnell quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dunnell: 3 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hodgman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kruger Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Tow Bros Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunnell in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Flash Flood | Dunnell | - | Strong thunderstorms dumped between one and one and one half inches of rain over much of southwestern Martin county. Scattered streets and basements were flooded in and around Dunnell. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnell | - | Trees down. Corn flattened. A culvert measuring 50 foot long by 6 foot diameter was rolled for 1/2 mile. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnell | - | A wind gust of 60 MPH was estimated by emergency management. Six trees were downed around town. Crop damage was reported in the vicinity. The time was estimated. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnell | - | Shingles off roof. Large tree limbs down. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnell | - | Few trees down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnell | - | Trees down. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dunnell | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dunnell | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Dunnell | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Dunnell | - | 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.
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 Dunnell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2231446 | 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 642983. 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.