BlockEvan, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Evan City. It lies in ZIP code area 56266. The Survey maps it on the Evan quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEvan fell from 86 to 70 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 | 86 | |
| 2020 | 70 | -16 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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 Morgan quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Evan quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
326 words on this townshipHistory of Brown County, Minnesota: Its People, Industries and Institutions (Volume 1), published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Evan City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Evan is a small station point oij the Redwood branch of the Northwestern railway system, in section 8, township 110, range 33. It was platted as Hanson Station in May, 1887, by Nels Hanson, and became an incorporated village in 1904. While it is a new village and not very large, it is growing and serves a well-to-do farming section as a handy trading place and market town for many things produced on the farms surrounding it. Peter Hanson, of Sleepy Eye, erected a grain warehouse here in 1885, and the same year the first store was opened by Mr. Norseth, of Stillwater, who was soon made postmaster. A creamery association was formed in 1895 and a large creamery plant installed.
Passage source: History of Brown County, Minnesota: Its People, Industries and Institutions (Volume 1), published 1916.
The village supports a private electric lighting plant, known as the Evan Electric Light Company. It has a volunteer fire company consisting of thirty members. A gasoline pumping system is used for securing water for fire uses. On April 1, 1916, it was stated the village only owed the sum of twenty-five dollars.
Passage source: History of Brown County, Minnesota: Its People, Industries and Institutions (Volume 1), published 1916.
Hardware and lumber, C. Jenson ; garage, A. L. Madsen; general dealers, Mogensen store, J. C. Foster; blacksmith, A. C. Anderson; implement dealer, Hansen Brothers; stock dealer, Lars Paulsen; restaurant, C. B. Nelson. The Light and Power Company furnishes the village with lights. There is what is known as the Evan Co-operative Creamery Company located here. (22)
Passage source: History of Brown County, Minnesota: Its People, Industries and Institutions (Volume 1), published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Evan City - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evan in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evan | - | Tin roofing removed from a shed. |
| August 2025 | Heavy Rain | Evan | - | Cocorahs station MN-BW-22 Sleepy Eye 7.7 NNW. 72 hour storm total of 5.69 inches. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Evan | - | Snow melt and recent heavy rainfall led to areal flooding across most of Brown County, with road closures along the immediate Minnesota River Valley. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Evan | - | County Road 7 was closed due to flooding. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evan | - | Three inch diameter tree branches were downed in town. In addition, scattered corn fields were flattened in the northern section of the county. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evan | - | A semi-trailer was blown off County Road 29. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Evan | - | A storm spotter reported a small tornado that lasted about one minute. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Evan | - | Hail accompanied by winds gusting to 40 knots flattened corn, soybean, and other crops. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Evan | - | Severe crop damage. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobden | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Sleepy Eye | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Leavenworth | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Springfield | 10.7 miles | 9 | |
| Iberia | 11.1 miles | 9 | |
| Essig | 12.7 miles | 10 | |
| Stark | 12.9 miles | 9 | |
| Dotson | 15.0 miles | 9 |
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 Evan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q427413 | 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 643429. 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.