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Sabin, Minnesota

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Elmwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56580. The Survey maps it on the Sabin quadrangle. 619 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Sabin within Clay County

On record in Sabin

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

Sabin grew from 522 to 619 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
2010522
2020619+97 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 24 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sabin: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Benedict Dredge Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Connlley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sabin in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2010Flash FloodSabin$5,000Streets flooded in the town of Sabin. In rural areas around Sabin, ditches filled with water and flooded several rural roads.
July 2011Flash FloodSabin$1,000Over 3 inches of rain fell in less than an hour, causing street flooding.
July 2011Flash FloodSabin$1,000Water flowed over several sections of county and township roads in southern and central Harmony township. Numerous farm access roads and fields were flooded.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindSabin$500Tree branches were downed by the wind.
April 2023FloodSabin-Sabin gage, on the South Buffalo River. Crested at 17.71 ft on April 14th at 13:15.
July 2023HailSabin-Public reports a hailstone 1.5 inches in diameter in Sabin, MN.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSabin-Trees blown down, and five power poles were blown over. Trained spotter reports their personal weather station clocked 86 mph as a gust front blew through.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSabin-Peak wind measured at an NDAWN station at 3 meters. Rural residents of Elmwood township report some tree branches down. Lots of dust blew through.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSabin-Several trees blown down and a highway sign was bent over near the Buffalo River along I-94. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports.
June 2019HailSabin-The hail fell on the south side of Sabin.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSabin-The wind gust was measured at the Moorhead airport.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSabin-Winds at 43 mph gusting to 61 mph occurred at the Moorhead airport.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSabin-Many large trees were blown down with roof damage reported.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSabin-Large trees were blown down and the power was out for several hours.
May 2016HailSabin-Heavy rainfall was also reported at the same time.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSabin-Several three to five inch diameter tree branches were blown down. Brief heavy rain and small hail also accompanied the wind.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSabin-Numerous 4 inch diameter tree branches were broken off.
July 2014HailSabin-no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSabin-no account filed
May 2007HailSabin-no account filed
May 2002HailSabin-no account filed
August 2002HailSabin-no account filed
September 2002HailSabin-no account filed
July 1999HailSabin-no account filed
July 1999HailSabin-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSabin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Finkle5.5 miles24
Rustad5.8 miles22
Baker7.1 miles24
Dilworth7.2 miles24
Glyndon7.7 miles23
Greenwood Communities8.3 miles25
Moorhead8.9 miles25
Downer9.0 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 SabinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2228965The 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 650447. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.