Cleveland, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56017. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle. 747 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.
On record in Cleveland
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
Geldner Sawmilllisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresCleveland grew from 719 to 747 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 | 719 | |
| 2020 | 747 | +28 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Faribault quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cleveland between 1996 and 2012, burning about 690 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 burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | LECENTER FIRE |
| 3 November 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 290 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Cleveland | 2 hurt, $20,000,000 | Tornado tracked through Le Center and adjoining rural areas. Most of the businesses in the southern part of town were damaged. Buildings destroyed at county fairgrounds. 15 mobiles homes at a trailer park destroyed, another 26 suffering major damage. Over 100 farm buildings destroyed. |
| August 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Cleveland | $610,000 | Dairy barn and machine shop destroyed three miles northwest of Cleveland. Four miles east of Cleveland, machine shed, two old cattle barns, and a garage leveled on family farm. Many acres of corn flattened along the twister's path. Damages county wide only included machinery and property values. No estimates on livestock lost though several cattle were killed. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleveland | $100,000 | Several trees were blown down near Cleveland. The trees landed on homes, sheds and a car and caused substantial damage. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleveland | $5,000 | Between Cleveland and Le Center, isolated trees were blown down, with broken windows and roof damage to a garage. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleveland | - | Report of a tree down in the town of Cleveland or four miles west of St. Peter. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleveland | - | A few large tree limbs were blown down south of Cleveland. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleveland | - | Several trees were blown down near Cleveland, Minnesota. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Cleveland | - | Nickel sized hail fell west of Cleveland. Golf ball sized hail was reported in the western portion of Le Sueur County. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleveland | - | Several trees toppled. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleveland | - | Few trees knocked over. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleveland | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cleveland | - | South end of roof peeled off of a two-year-old log home. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Cleveland | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Cleveland | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Cleveland | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Cleveland | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Cleveland | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Cleveland | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Cleveland | - | 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 Cleveland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926745 | 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 641329. 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.





