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Shevlin, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Shevlin City. It lies in ZIP code area 56676. The Survey maps it on the Shevlin quadrangle. 137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.

Shevlin within Clearwater County

Population over time

2 figures

Shevlin fell from 176 to 137 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
2010176
2020137-39 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Shevlin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 392 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning54
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
6 August 2012Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clearwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Shevlin: 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clearwater County Marl Beds No 1Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Clearwater County Marl Beds No 2Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Gesell East MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gesell No 2 East PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pawek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clearwater County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shevlin in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2008HailShevlin$20,000The hail continued for about four minutes, or from 7:37 PM to 7:41 PM.
August 2020Flash FloodShevlin$2,000Fields and farm access roads were flooded across southeast Copley and southern Shevlin townships. Street flooding was reported in Shevlin.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindShevlin-Multiple trees down and broken tree branches in Shelvin, MN. Time estimated by radar.
July 2023HailShevlin-Public reports quarter sized hail in Shevlin.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindShevlin-Numerous pine trees were broken down around the area.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindShevlin-Trees were blown down by the strong winds.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindShevlin-Several trees were blown down and a trampoline was blown across a yard. The area was without power for 4 hours.
August 2002Tornado (F0)Shevlin-A brief touchdown knocked down a few trees in a yard.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Shevlin-Brief touchdowns were reported.
June 2019HailShevlin-no account filed
September 2018HailShevlin-no account filed
June 2005Funnel CloudShevlin-no account filed
July 2003HailShevlin-no account filed
July 1998HailShevlin-no account filed
June 1996HailShevlin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clearwater 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
Bagley7.4 miles10
Leonard8.4 miles10
Alida10.2 miles9
Minerva12.9 miles10
Coffee Pot Landing13.1 miles9
Clearbrook14.4 miles10
Ebro14.6 miles9
Mallard (historical)15.1 miles10

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 ShevlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227586The 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 659763. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.