Sedan, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sedan City. It lies in ZIP code area 56334. The Survey maps it on the Sedan quadrangle. 43 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,345 feet above sea level.
On record in Sedan
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 3 records
Urjans Iverson Houselisted 1982
Terrace Historic Districtlisted 1982
Terrace Mill Historic Districtlisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresSedan fell from 45 to 43 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 | 45 | |
| 2020 | 43 | -2 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Sedan quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lake Minnewaska quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sedan between 1999 and 2012, burning about 554 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 39 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 148 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 250 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 110 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 October 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | GROVE LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedan in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 funnel cloud, 3 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Sedan | - | Video from a storm chaser showed a funnel that was completely separate from the circulation that produced the Sedan tornado and the tornado 2 to 4 miles north of Sedan from 1841 to 1847. It is possible this touched down, but there is not enough evidence to be certain. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Sedan | - | A tornado touched down in an open field. It was recorded on video by numerous storm chasers. |
| May 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Sedan | - | Spotters and multiple storm chasers reported a brief tornado touchdown north of Sedan, Minnesota. It was rated an EF0 with no damage. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Sedan | - | Several reports of nickel to quarter size hail was observed near Terrace and east of Terrace, Minnesota. |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Sedan | - | A storm chaser reported a funnel cloud just north of Sedan. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedan | - | Trees were downed. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sedan | - | Dime sized hail fell 2 miles west of Brooten. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedan | - | Empty grain bin blown 1/4 mile. Trees down. |
| July 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Sedan | - | Though viewed by law enforcement, spotters and storm chasers, there was no touchdown. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedan | - | Trees down. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedan | - | Large branches down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedan | - | Large trees down. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sedan | - | Strong winds blew down several trees and buildings. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Sedan | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Sedan | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Sedan | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Sedan | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Sedan | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Sedan | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Sedan | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Sedan | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grove Lake | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pine Hill Park | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Terrace | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Glenwood | 9.1 miles | 8 | |
| Villard | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| Long Beach | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Westport | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Starbuck | 15.2 miles | 9 |
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 Sedan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2227058 | 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 651838. 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.




