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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.

Evansville within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Evansville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010612
2020603-9 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

14 since 1993

Regional 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1

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
20 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictFEDJE WF
3 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictLARSON
7 May 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2005Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 1994Arson/incendiarism20 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2007Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictFEDJE
26 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFergus Falls Wetland Management DistrictERNEST OLSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

21 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Tornado (EF1)Evansville$25,000A 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 2011Thunderstorm WindEvansville$2,000Power lines were blown down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEvansville-Thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph measured by MNDOT RWIS.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindEvansville-A local newspaper had several large trees blown down in Evansville.
August 2011Heavy RainEvansville-A trained spotter measured 3.50 inches of rainfall in the past 3 hours.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEvansville-Four inch tree branches were downed.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindEvansville-Two trees down. Estimated windspeed.
July 2015HailEvansville-no account filed
July 2015HailEvansville-no account filed
August 2013HailEvansville-no account filed
July 2009HailEvansville-no account filed
July 2003HailEvansville-no account filed
July 2003HailEvansville-no account filed
April 2002HailEvansville-no account filed
April 2002HailEvansville-no account filed
August 2002HailEvansville-no account filed
June 2001HailEvansville-no account filed
August 2001HailEvansville-no account filed
July 2000HailEvansville-no account filed
July 1999HailEvansville-no account filed
July 1999HailEvansville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Melby5.0 miles9
Brandon5.2 miles9
Millerville7.7 miles9
Garfield11.0 miles9
Leaf Valley12.3 miles9
Holmes City14.0 miles8
Kensington15.6 miles9
Alexandria18.1 miles9

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 EvansvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2230876The 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.