Map of Sebeka city

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 city overview:
Name:	Sebeka city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Minnesota
County:	Wadena County
Incorporated:	March 19, 1898
Elevation:	1,385 ft (422 m)
Total Area:	2.47 sq mi (6.40 km²)
Land Area:	2.47 sq mi (6.40 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	741
Population Density:	299.64/sq mi (115.69/km²)
ZIP code:	56477
Area code:	218
FIPS code:	2759152
GNISfeature ID:	0651815
Website:	http://www.cityofsebeka.org/

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Sebeka online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.

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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.