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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.

Sedan within Pope County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Sedan 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.

YearPeople Change
201045
202043-2 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional 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 burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 April 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2009Railroad operations and maintenance39 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Arson/incendiarism148 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2003Debris and open burning250 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 1999Debris and open burning110 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeGROVE LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Funnel CloudSedan-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 2015Tornado (EF0)Sedan-A tornado touched down in an open field. It was recorded on video by numerous storm chasers.
May 2012Tornado (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 2010HailSedan-Several reports of nickel to quarter size hail was observed near Terrace and east of Terrace, Minnesota.
June 2005Funnel CloudSedan-A storm chaser reported a funnel cloud just north of Sedan.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSedan-Trees were downed.
May 2004HailSedan-Dime sized hail fell 2 miles west of Brooten.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSedan-Empty grain bin blown 1/4 mile. Trees down.
July 2000Funnel CloudSedan-Though viewed by law enforcement, spotters and storm chasers, there was no touchdown.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSedan-Trees down. Estimated windspeed.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSedan-Large branches down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSedan-Large trees down.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSedan-Strong winds blew down several trees and buildings.
August 2018HailSedan-no account filed
June 2016Funnel CloudSedan-no account filed
June 2013HailSedan-no account filed
June 2008HailSedan-no account filed
July 2002HailSedan-no account filed
August 2001HailSedan-no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F1)Sedan-no account filed
June 1996Funnel CloudSedan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Grove Lake5.5 miles8
Pine Hill Park5.7 miles9
Terrace5.9 miles9
Glenwood9.1 miles8
Villard9.7 miles10
Long Beach10.5 miles8
Westport10.5 miles8
Starbuck15.2 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 SedanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227058The 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.