Sebeka, Minnesota facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sebeka
City
Buildings on Sebeka's main street, Minnesota Avenue.
Motto(s):  Small enough to know you, large enough to serve you.
Location of Sebeka, Minnesota
Country	United States
State	Minnesota
County	Wadena
Incorporated	March 19, 1898
Area
• Total	2.47 sq mi (6.40 km2)
• Land	2.47 sq mi (6.40 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation	1,385 ft (422 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	711
• Estimate  (2019)	666
• Density	269.31/sq mi (103.98/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	56477
Area code(s)	218
FIPS code	27-59152
GNIS feature ID	0651815
Website	http://www.cityofsebeka.org/

Sebeka ( sə-BEE-kə) is a city in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 711 at the 2010 census. The name comes from an Ojibwe word meaning "town by the water".

U.S. Highway 71, State Highway 227, and the historic Jefferson Highway (now Jefferson Avenue), are three of the main routes in the city.

History

Sebeka originally grew around the depot of the K-line branch of the Great Northern Railway, which first came through the area in 1892. The first major industry in the area was logging. The town's first store was the Anderson Pioneer Store. The town was incorporated on March 19, 1898. Its population has gone from 233 in 1900 to a peak of 818 in 1960.

Point of interest

In the Sebeka High School building is a mural, painted in 1938, by artist Richard Haines that demonstrates the casein paint process as used in fresco-painting. Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.47 square miles (6.40 km²), all of it land.

The Redeye River flows through the city.

Demographics

2010 census

As of the census of 2010, there were 711 people, 321 households, and 182 families residing in the city. The population density was 287.9 inhabitants per square mile (111.2/km²). There were 364 housing units at an average density of 147.4 per square mile (56.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.9% White, 0.4% African American, 0.1% Native American, and 1.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.8% of the population.

There were 321 households, of which 27.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.5% were married couples living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 43.3% were non-families. 38.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.96.

The median age in the city was 38.3 years. 26.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 6.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.3% were from 25 to 44; 23.1% were from 45 to 64; and 20.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.8% male and 52.2% female.

Notable people

• Patrick Volkerding, founder and maintainer of Slackware, is a resident of Sebeka since 2005.
• Dick Stigman, a Major League Baseball player, attended and graduated from Sebeka High School. He was a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, and the Boston Red Sox during the early 1960s.
• Kenneth Arnold, a pilot who reported a widely covered UFO sighting, was born in Sebeka.
• Carrie Lee, a beauty queen who was named Miss Minnesota USA in 2005, is a native of Sebeka.

Images for kids

• 

  Sebeka post office.

See also

In Spanish: Sebeka (Minnesota) para niños