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Slayton, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Slayton City. It lies in ZIP code area 56172. The Survey maps it on the Slayton quadrangle. 2,013 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,601 feet above sea level.

Slayton within Murray County

On record in Slayton

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Slayton fell from 2,153 to 2,013 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
20102,153
20202,013-140 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Slayton in 2004, burning about 10 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
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
25 April 2004Arson/incendiarism10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slayton in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 19 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 lightning. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindSlayton$200,000no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindSlayton$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a building, damaged trees and road signs, and blew a semi trailer on its side.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSlayton$30,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a granary building.
June 2001LightningSlayton$2,000Lightning struck a house, causing damage to the side of the house and burning off cable television wires.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSlayton-A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was measured by Automated Weather Observing System site KDVP 1 mile west-southwest of Slayton.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSlayton-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a laundromat.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSlayton-Significant tree damage was reported east of Slayton.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindSlayton-Automated site KDVP 1 miles west of Slayton measured thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSlayton-Thunderstorm wind measured by automated weather station KDVP near Slayton.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSlayton-Peak gust was measured at the Slayton Municipal Airport. Time estimated from radar, as occurred during the 10 minutes prior to 0159LST.
June 2017HailSlayton-Social Media Report.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSlayton-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree down onto a building.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSlayton-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not known.
June 2017HailSlayton-no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSlayton-no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSlayton-no account filed
June 2005HailSlayton-no account filed
June 2005HailSlayton-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindSlayton-no account filed
September 2005HailSlayton-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSlayton-no account filed
May 2004HailSlayton-no account filed
August 2003HailSlayton-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindSlayton-no account filed
July 2002HailSlayton-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindSlayton-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSlayton-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSlayton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Murray 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
Iona5.2 miles7
Hadley5.3 miles11
Avoca6.4 miles7
Currie7.5 miles10
Wirock7.5 miles7
Lowville8.0 miles11
Owanka10.4 miles10
Lake Wilson10.5 miles7

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 SlaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2131404The 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 652147. 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.