The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusSturgeon is an unincorporated community in Sturgeon Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The community is 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Cook at the junction of State Highway 73 (MN 73) and Saint Louis County Road 22 (CR 22). It is 20 miles (32 km) north of Chisholm. Sturgeon is near the Sturgeon River State Forest and the Superior National Forest in Saint Louis County.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 140 to 144 (+3%). Half of its homes were built before 1981.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Sturgeon yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Sturgeon’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sturgeon’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Sturgeon, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Sturgeon is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Sturgeon has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Alango School in Alango, 4.6 miles away.
Sturgeon and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.