Evan Minnesota Map

About Evan, Minnesota

Evan is a locality in Brown County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 70. The population density is 26.2 people per km². Evan is located at 44.3541°N, 94.8414°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Evan is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56266.

Evan hunkers low against the vast, open horizon of the Minnesota prairie, where the sky claims more territory than the land itself. It lies 13.0 miles northwest of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 312°T), and is situated 7.0 miles northwest of Sleepy Eye. The terrain around Evan is defined by an ancient, flattened glacial silence, punctuated only by the subtle depression of the Bloemke Lakebed and the distant, singular prominence of Fort Hill rising toward the clouds. Four miles to the east, Spring Creek carves a thin, arterial path through the silt, its waters moving with a deliberate, sluggish patience that mirrors the rhythm of the surrounding fields. The air here carries a sharp, dry clarity, especially when the sun dips low and casts long, violet shadows across the fields, turning the stalks of grain into shimmering bronze needles that catch the fading light.

Evan persists as a quiet node of agricultural industry, a place where the economy remains tethered to the deep, dark soil that has supported generations of settlers. The history of the locality is etched into the grid of its streets and the weathered grain elevators that stand like sentinels against the wind, reminding travelers of a time when the railroad dictated the pulse of every harvest. While the Hindeman Creek State Aquatic Management Area (Brown) offers a quiet preserve for the local ecology six miles away, the daily life in Evan focuses on the maintenance of the homestead and the slow turn of the seasons. Even the nearby waters of Sleepy Eye Lake seem to hold the stillness of the plains, reflecting a landscape that demands endurance and rewards those who find beauty in the spare, unadorned geometry of the Midwestern interior.

About This Evan Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Evan, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.354127, -94.841377. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Evan includes the ZIP code (56266), telephone area code (320), county seat of Brown County (New Ulm), and school district assignment (Sleepy Eye Public School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.