BlockMurdock, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dublin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56271. The Survey maps it on the Murdock quadrangle. 306 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.
On record in Murdock
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 1 record
Sabin S. Murdock Houselisted 1985
Population over time
3 figuresMurdock grew from 303 to 306 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 303 | |
| 2010 | 278 | -25 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 306 | +28 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Murdock quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Willmar quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murdock in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Murdock | $1,500,000 | A tornado touched down in a corn field northwest of Murdock and moved northeast. The first structure that was hit was a church, which lost part of its roof. Along the way, the tornado destroyed corn fields, knocked down or broke many trees, and blew apart six empty grain bins that were ready for harvest. Three machine or equipment storage sheds were also destroyed and the roof of a restaurant was partially torn off. The tornado then moved into Kandiyohi County (see separate entry). |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | $250,000 | Social media pictures and video of a dairy farm damaged near Murdock. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Murdock | $50,000 | Tornado mostly moved across open fields, but it also hit a farmstead, blowing out windows, knocking down power lines, and destroying an outbuilding. The tornado was recorded on video by numerous storm chasers. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Sherriff Dispatch reported tree damage 1 mile S of Murdock. |
| August 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Murdock | - | A storm spotter photographed a funnel that seemed to be close to the ground. It may have touched down but the chaser was too far away (12 miles across rolling terrain) and noted no debris cloud. Nobody who was closer to the storm saw the funnel touch down. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Numerous trees were blown down in the city of Murdock. Some of the trees were one foot in diameter. Due to several of the trees knocking down power lines, a large portion of Murdock lost power. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Murdock | - | Tornado touched down in open field. It was recorded on video by multiple storm chasers. The tornado moved toward the southeast, even though its parent storm was moving north-northeast. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Murdock | - | Several areas from north of Murdock, to southwest of Sunburg had hail up to golf ball size. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Murdock | - | Dime to golf ball sized hail covered the ground. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Murdock | - | Hail fell on newly planted crops. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Several sheds down, some siding off homes, numerous trees down, mostly on western side of town. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Numerous trees down along a 12 mile long swath. |
| July 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Murdock | - | 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 Murdock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229340 | 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 648389. 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.
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.