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Dunvilla, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dunn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56572. The Survey maps it on the Cormorant quadrangle. It stands 1,329 feet above sea level.

Dunvilla within Otter Tail County

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.

In the county-history sources

47 words on this township

Otter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War;, published 1919 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Dunn Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Dunn Township - 47 words.

Fires near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Dunvilla between 1996 and 2020, burning about 358 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2005Debris and open burning22 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2016Smoking2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

21 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunvilla in 21 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 8 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2004Tornado (F1)Dunvilla$600,000Intermittent tree damage occurred from the east side of Lake Lizzie to Dent. Power outages occurred from trees falling on power lines. On West McDonald Lake, a 30 foot mobile home was overturned against an oak tree that was split in half. A tree also fell on a boat, destroying it. At Spirit Lake, 20 trees were damaged at a resort, some falling on resort cabins. A dock was also damaged. At Hoffman Lake, property owners reportedly saw the tornado coming across the lake. Many trees fell on homes or other property.
July 2004Tornado (F1)Dunvilla$400,000Many large trees were blown down and some blocked state highway 34. Four trees fell on a house on Tamarac Lake, where many other trees were blown down. On Pelican Lake, numerous oak trees were damaged. One oak tree fell on a roof. Trees also fell on a recreational vehicle and on several boats.
July 2011Flash FloodDunvilla$2,000Several sections of rural road in Dunn Township were flooded.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindDunvilla-Large tree branches were snapped, with a few trees blown down between Lake Lizzie, Pelican Lake, and Lake Melissa.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindDunvilla-Strong winds were reported.
July 2018Funnel CloudDunvilla-A persistent wall cloud with multiple brief funnels were seen over the Dunvilla area.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindDunvilla-Several boat lifts were damaged.
July 2018HailDunvilla-The large hail was accompanied by strong winds and very heavy rain. The winds tracked across the north end of Lake Lida.
July 2017HailDunvilla-A large hailstones fell along with very heavy rain.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDunvilla-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Dunvilla-Large branches were snapped off.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindDunvilla-A tree was blown down onto a house.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindDunvilla-Large branches were broken off trees.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindDunvilla-A portion of a lake home's roof was blown into Lake Lizzie.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindDunvilla-A house on Little Pelican Lake lost a portion of its roof.
May 2022HailDunvilla-no account filed
August 2015HailDunvilla-no account filed
August 2007HailDunvilla-no account filed
July 2004HailDunvilla-no account filed
September 2003HailDunvilla-no account filed
June 2001HailDunvilla-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
Clear View3.9 miles11
Pelican Rapids7.3 miles11
Vergas11.2 miles16
Norwegian Grove11.5 miles11
Erhard13.0 miles10
Edwards14.8 miles12
Dent17.6 miles12
Luce19.3 miles12

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 DunvillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5315794The 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 642986. 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.

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.