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Hitterdal, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hitterdal City. It lies in ZIP code area 56552. The Survey maps it on the Hawley quadrangle. 199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Hitterdal within Clay County

Population over time

3 figures

Hitterdal fell from 201 to 199 between 2002 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
2002201
20102010 (0%)
2020199-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hitterdal between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,053 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Debris and open burning38 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2020Debris and open burning320 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictMNDLR-FY20-WF-HOYKENS SOUTH
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined254 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2014Arson/incendiarism15 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictRUSTAD LAKE NORTH
17 May 2020Debris and open burning28 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictFLORA LAKE
27 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictMOE WPA
22 April 2010Debris and open burning62 acresDetroit Lakes Wetland Management DistrictNORD 4/10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 Hitterdal: 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
Ulven Pit & Mill No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hitterdal in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 1996Tornado (F2)Hitterdal$250,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHitterdal$150,000Numerous large tree limbs and power lines were blown down. Wind driven hail damaged fields and buildings.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHitterdal-Several large ash and cottonwood trees were snapped. Reports of power lines down.
July 2012HailHitterdal-The hail fell along with winds that were estimated at 55 mph.
June 2005Flash FloodHitterdal-Several section roads were flooded south of Hitterdal and west of highway 32.
June 1994Tornado (F0)Hitterdal-A tornado touched down briefly and did no damage.
July 2014HailHitterdal-no account filed
August 2002HailHitterdal-no account filed
July 1999HailHitterdal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Manitoba Junction4.9 miles7
Dale5.4 miles7
Winnipeg Junction5.7 miles7
Ulen7.0 miles10
Hawley7.3 miles8
Muskoda11.2 miles9
Felton14.8 miles8
Averill15.3 miles23

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 HitterdalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2024993The 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 645032. 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.