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Sherburn, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sherburn City. It lies in ZIP code area 56171. It lies near Munger Lakebed. The Survey maps it on the Sherburn quadrangle. 1,058 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,289 feet above sea level.

Sherburn within Martin County

On record in Sherburn

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Sherburn fell from 1,137 to 1,058 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
20101,137
20201,058-79 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sherburn between 2007 and 2013, burning about 100 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 2013Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2007Arson/incendiarism50 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherburn in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSherburn$50,000A tree was uprooted and fell onto a car and building causing significant damage in Sherburn.
August 2025Flash FloodSherburn-The Emergency Manager reported flooding in Dunnell with several homes having water up to 4 inches deep in basements. There was damage a waste water facility as well. Several gravel roads were damaged including in Jay Township and Lake Fremont Township.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSherburn-A large tree was blown down at 261st and County Road 5 in Sherburn, Minnesota.
August 2007Flash FloodSherburn-Significant street flooding was reported across much of the city.
June 2005HailSherburn-Golf ball sized hail fell at the intersection of Interstate 90 and County Road 7.
April 2004HailSherburn-A handful of gutters and cars were dented.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindSherburn-A few tree limbs were downed.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSherburn-A wind gust of 60 MPH was reported by law enforcement. A wind gust of 55 MPH was measured by a spotter in town where tree branches were downed.
August 2004Heavy RainSherburn-Streets and basements were flooded by an estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSherburn-Measured by Skywarn spotter.
May 2024HailSherburn-no account filed
April 2022HailSherburn-no account filed
May 2012HailSherburn-no account filed
May 2012HailSherburn-no account filed
May 2011HailSherburn-no account filed
April 2010HailSherburn-no account filed
June 2005HailSherburn-no account filed
June 2005HailSherburn-no account filed
June 2005HailSherburn-no account filed
May 2004HailSherburn-no account filed
June 1999HailSherburn-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSherburn-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSherburn-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSherburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Fox Lake4.0 miles6
Welcome5.8 miles6
Dunnell6.9 miles6
Trimont7.7 miles6
Ceylon9.6 miles6
Wilbert12.4 miles6
Ormsby13.6 miles6
Fairmont14.1 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 SherburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227982The 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 651955. 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.