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Stephen, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Stephen City. It lies in ZIP code area 56757. The Survey maps it on the Stephen East quadrangle. 592 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

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Stephen within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Stephen fell from 658 to 592 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
2010658
2020592-66 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Stephen between 1997 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2007Debris and open burning200 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use40 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 1997Debris and open burning62 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

46 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stephen in 46 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 29 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006Tornado (F1)Stephen$10,000This tornado originated in Kittson county 3 miles east-northeast of Donaldson at 1602 CST. The tornado blew over a road sign and caused additional extreme wind stress as crops were swirled by the winds. Peak wind speeds were estimated at 80 mph.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindStephen$5,000A few hailstones and very strong winds flattened crops.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindStephen$5,000Trees were uprooted and several small buildings were overturned.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindStephen$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds produced tree damage.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindStephen$500Trees were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindStephen$500Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindStephen$500A large tree was blown down and another tree fell on a porch roof.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindStephen$500Tree limbs were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindStephen$300Trees were blown down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStephen-Peak wind gust was measured at a personal weather station.
June 2020HailStephen-Dime to quarter sized hail was reported along highway 75.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindStephen-Strong wind gusts were reported.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindStephen-Several large tree branches were broken down in shelterbelts along U. S. Highway 75. Intermittent tree damage continued into and north of Stephen, from northern Tamarac Township into Sinnott Township.
July 2010HailStephen-Very heavy rain fell with a few large hail stones.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindStephen-An evergreen was uprooted and small trees were blown down.
August 2007HailStephen-The hail was observed by an NWS employee examining damage from a prior storm event.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStephen-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet wind sensor.
August 2007HailStephen-This storm began in southwest Kittson County and crossed into northwest Marshall County.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindStephen-Trees were blown down in Stephen.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindStephen-A wooden power pole was snapped and power lines were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindStephen-A water truck was rocked back and forth.
August 1997HailStephen-A hailstorm left a damage path 4 miles wide by 10 miles long over western Marshall county. 25,000 acres were destroyed by hail.
June 2022HailStephen-no account filed
June 2020HailStephen-no account filed
June 2019HailStephen-no account filed
July 2017HailStephen-no account filed
July 2017HailStephen-no account filed
August 2012HailStephen-no account filed
June 2008HailStephen-no account filed
June 2006HailStephen-no account filed
July 2006HailStephen-no account filed
July 2005HailStephen-no account filed
July 2005HailStephen-no account filed
July 2005HailStephen-no account filed
July 2003HailStephen-no account filed
June 2002HailStephen-no account filed
August 2001HailStephen-no account filed
August 2001HailStephen-no account filed
June 2000HailStephen-no account filed
June 2000HailStephen-no account filed
June 2000HailStephen-no account filed
May 2000HailStephen-no account filed
May 2000HailStephen-no account filed
May 1998HailStephen-no account filed
May 1998HailStephen-no account filed
August 1998HailStephen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Valley Court0.0 miles11
Argyle8.5 miles11
Florian13.0 miles9
Englund13.2 miles9
Luna14.2 miles11
Big Woods15.7 miles9
March17.6 miles10
Warren18.3 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 StephenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227113The 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 652619. 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.