BlockSeaforth, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sheridan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56287. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wabasso quadrangle. 82 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSeaforth fell from 86 to 82 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 | 86 | |
| 2020 | 82 | -4 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wabasso quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
2,158 words on this townshipThe History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Sheridan Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Sheridan township is located in the north-central part of Redwood county and embraces Congressional township 112-37. It is bounded on the north by Kintire and a half mile of Delhi, on the east by Redwood Falls, on the south by Vail, and on the west by Vesta. Redwood river flows through its central part in an easterly and north easterly direction. The surface is rolling prairie. The Vesta-Sanborn branch of the Chicago and Northwestern crosses its southwest corner. Its only village is Seaforth with a population in 1915 of 146 persons. The trading centers are Seaforth, Redwood Falls, Vesta, and Belview. There are eight school houses. The predominating nationality is German.
Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seaforth in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 4 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Seaforth | - | Numerous roads were closed for several days due to snow melt, and the flood waters that develop from it. Rapidly runoff led to impassable roads, especially along streams and creeks along county roads. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Seaforth | - | Significant damage to crops was noted in the area due to the combination of strong winds and large hail. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Seaforth | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Seaforth | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Seaforth | - | 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.
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 Seaforth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2227575 | 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 651812. 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.
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.