BlockSouth Haven, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Southside Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55382. The Survey maps it on the South Haven quadrangle. 185 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSouth Haven fell from 187 to 185 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 | 187 | |
| 2020 | 185 | -2 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1951 USGS Annandale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS South Haven quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
2,500 words on this townshipHistory of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Southside Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The town is a favorite summer resort, its lakes making it an ideal place for hunting, fishing and recreation, Its advantages in this respect are becoming more and more widely known. Since the coming of the railroad much of the activity of the town has centered in the village of South Haven, Before that the village of Fair Haven, in Stearns county, was the principal trading point.
Passage source: History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915.
It is appropriate to mention here that Mr, Van Dervort located the town of Annandale, South Haven, Kimball, Watkins and Eden Valley. After the road was built he remained with the company several years, as claim agent,
Passage source: History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915.
But even this loss did not deter progress. Within forty-eight hours an army of men was at work removing the debris, and plans for rebuilding were under consideration, That simmer was a busy time in South Haven. as may be judged from the faet that by fall all the burned district was rebuilt and the meréhants and other business firms were comfortably located in their new quarters, The new buildings consisted of a solid brick block facing east on Oak avenue, extending from Grant street to Railroad avenue; on the opposite side of Oak avenue the Hamm Brewing Co.'s building, First State Bank building, both of brick construction, and the Central Lumber Co.'s hardware store, built of steel.
Passage source: History of Wright County, Minnesota Volume II, published 1915.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Southside Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.
Fires near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of South Haven between 1999 and 2000, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 9.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 November 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 22 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Haven: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Con Rock Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Minnesota Rock Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rockite Schram Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Haven in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2006 | Tornado (F0) | South Haven | $200,000 | An NWS damage survey confirmed a brief tornado touched down along the western shore of Twin Lake. There were an estimated two hundred trees downed at the north end of Quinn Avenue, and two homes suffered substantial damage, partially from falling trees. Minor damage was reported to several additional homes. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | Photo provided of telephone wire pole down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | A storm chaser with a handheld anemometer measured a wind gust near South Haven. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | A swath of widespread tree damage occurred between South Haven and Annandale. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | Trees down near Lake Francis. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | A 60 MPH wind gust was measured by an anemometer. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | Three trees were snapped. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | Power lines down. Estimated windspeed. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | Trees down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 2016 | Hail | South Haven | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | South Haven | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | South Haven | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | South Haven | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | South Haven | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | South Haven | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annandale | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| French Lake | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| West Albion | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| Knapp | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| Albion Center | 10.8 miles | 10 | |
| Maple Lake | 12.0 miles | 10 | |
| Clearwater Estates | 12.3 miles | 11 | |
| Clearwater | 12.3 miles | 11 |
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 South Haven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q930568 | 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 652314. 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.