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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.

Cleveland within Le Sueur County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Cleveland 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.

YearPeople Change
2010719
2020747+28 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

2 since 1996

Regional 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 burning1
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
10 March 2012Debris and open burning400 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesLECENTER FIRE
3 November 1996Arson/incendiarism290 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Sueur County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1998Tornado (F2)Cleveland2 hurt, $20,000,000Tornado 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 1999Tornado (F1)Cleveland$610,000Dairy 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 2015Thunderstorm WindCleveland$100,000Several trees were blown down near Cleveland. The trees landed on homes, sheds and a car and caused substantial damage.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCleveland$5,000Between Cleveland and Le Center, isolated trees were blown down, with broken windows and roof damage to a garage.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Report of a tree down in the town of Cleveland or four miles west of St. Peter.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCleveland-A few large tree limbs were blown down south of Cleveland.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Several trees were blown down near Cleveland, Minnesota.
May 2004HailCleveland-Nickel sized hail fell west of Cleveland. Golf ball sized hail was reported in the western portion of Le Sueur County.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Several trees toppled.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Few trees knocked over.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Trees and power lines down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCleveland-South end of roof peeled off of a two-year-old log home.
April 2026HailCleveland-no account filed
July 2025HailCleveland-no account filed
July 2025HailCleveland-no account filed
July 2024HailCleveland-no account filed
May 2008HailCleveland-no account filed
May 2003Funnel CloudCleveland-no account filed
May 1999HailCleveland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Sueur 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
Saint Henry4.8 miles10
Marysburg6.0 miles13
Ottawa6.9 miles12
Kasota7.1 miles13
Le Center7.2 miles10
Cordova8.8 miles10
Greenland10.1 miles10
Le Sueur10.2 miles12

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 ClevelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926745The 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.