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.
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
4-H Club Building, Murray County Fairgroundslisted 2005
Dinehart-Holt Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresSlayton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,153 | |
| 2020 | 2,013 | -140 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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
- 1967 USGS Slayton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Worthington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional 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/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | $200,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a building, damaged trees and road signs, and blew a semi trailer on its side. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a granary building. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Slayton | $2,000 | Lightning struck a house, causing damage to the side of the house and burning off cable television wires. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was measured by Automated Weather Observing System site KDVP 1 mile west-southwest of Slayton. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a laundromat. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Significant tree damage was reported east of Slayton. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Automated site KDVP 1 miles west of Slayton measured thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Thunderstorm wind measured by automated weather station KDVP near Slayton. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Peak gust was measured at the Slayton Municipal Airport. Time estimated from radar, as occurred during the 10 minutes prior to 0159LST. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Slayton | - | Social Media Report. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree down onto a building. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not known. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | 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 Slayton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2131404 | 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 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.



