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.
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.
Church of St. Stephen-Catholiclisted 1982 · 0.1 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSaint 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 851 | |
| 2020 | 797 | -54 (-6%) |
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 Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS St Stephen quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS St. Stephen quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS St. Cloud quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,540 words on this townshipHistory 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 1992Regional 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 burning | 23 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 July 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benton County Marl Bed | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opole | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Wendel | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Five Points | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Sartell | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Evergreen Village | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hi-Vue Park | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Collegeville | 8.8 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Joseph | 9.8 miles | 12 |
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 Stephen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1839651 | 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 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.





