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.
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
- Sherburn Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1987
- Sherburn Community Buildinglisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresSherburn 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,137 | |
| 2020 | 1,058 | -79 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Sherburn quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairmont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2007Regional 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/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | $50,000 | A tree was uprooted and fell onto a car and building causing significant damage in Sherburn. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Sherburn | - | 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | A large tree was blown down at 261st and County Road 5 in Sherburn, Minnesota. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Sherburn | - | Significant street flooding was reported across much of the city. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sherburn | - | Golf ball sized hail fell at the intersection of Interstate 90 and County Road 7. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Sherburn | - | A handful of gutters and cars were dented. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | A few tree limbs were downed. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | 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 2004 | Heavy Rain | Sherburn | - | Streets and basements were flooded by an estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | Measured by Skywarn spotter. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sherburn | - | 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 Sherburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2227982 | 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 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.



