Evansville, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Evansville City. It lies in ZIP code area 56326. The Survey maps it on the Evansville quadrangle. 603 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,348 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEvansville fell from 612 to 603 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 | 612 | |
| 2020 | 603 | -9 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Brainerd quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Brainerd quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Battle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Evansville between 1993 and 2016, burning about 78 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Fergus Falls Wetland Management District | FEDJE WF |
| 3 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fergus Falls Wetland Management District | LARSON |
| 7 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 May 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 May 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fergus Falls Wetland Management District | FEDJE |
| 26 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Fergus Falls Wetland Management District | ERNEST OLSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evansville in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Evansville | $25,000 | A National Weather Service Storm Damage Survey from the Grand Forks, North Dakota Office determined that an EF-1 tornado touched down about one mile north of Wendell in Grant County, and had an intermittent track east-southeast through Grant County. It then moved east across northwestern Douglas County to the south side of Evansville, before lifting. Total path length from Grant County into Douglas County was about 21 miles. Damage was confined to large trees, but several power poles were blown down in Evansville, causing a city wide power outage. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | Thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph measured by MNDOT RWIS. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | A local newspaper had several large trees blown down in Evansville. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Evansville | - | A trained spotter measured 3.50 inches of rainfall in the past 3 hours. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | Four inch tree branches were downed. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | Two trees down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Evansville | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melby | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Brandon | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Millerville | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Garfield | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| Leaf Valley | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Holmes City | 14.0 miles | 8 | |
| Kensington | 15.6 miles | 9 | |
| Alexandria | 18.1 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 Evansville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2230876 | 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 643446. 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.





