Sebeka, Minnesota
| Sebeka, Minnesota | |
|---|---|
| City | |
| Motto: Small enough to know you, large enough to serve you. | |
 Location of Sebeka, Minnesota |
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| Coordinates: 46°37′42″N 95°5′27″W / 46.62833°N 95.09083°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Wadena |
| Incorporated | March 19, 1898 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | David Anderson |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.47 sq mi (6.40 km2) |
| • Land | 2.47 sq mi (6.40 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,385 ft (422 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 711 |
| • Estimate (2013) | 749 |
| • Density | 287.9/sq mi (111.2/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 56477 |
| Area code(s) | 218 |
| FIPS code | 27-59152 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0651815 |
| Website | http://www.sebeka.com/ |
Sebeka (/səˈbiːkə/ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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