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Saint Stephen, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brockway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56375. The Survey maps it on the Saint Stephen quadrangle. 797 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Saint Stephen within Stearns County

On record in Saint Stephen

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Stephen fell from 851 to 797 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
2010851
2020797-54 (-6%)

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.

In the county-history sources

1,540 words on this township

History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Brockway Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Brockway Township - 1,540 words.

Fires near this place

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Saint Stephen between 1992 and 2019, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning23
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2003Debris and open burning1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Stephen: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Benton County Marl BedLimestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Stearns 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
Opole5.9 miles9
Saint Wendel6.0 miles8
Five Points6.6 miles12
Sartell6.6 miles12
Evergreen Village6.6 miles12
Hi-Vue Park7.2 miles12
Collegeville8.8 miles12
Saint Joseph9.8 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 Saint StephenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1839651The 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 651056. 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.

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.