BlockMinnesota
The archive covers 87 counties in Minnesota so far. Everything below is a work of the United States government or a book published before 1929, and every page links to the record it came from.
What the archive holds in Minnesota
| Records | Count | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Settlements | 2,251 | Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records, each with the survey sheets that cover it. |
| Topographic sheets | 2,853 | Distinct United States Geological Survey sheets covering those settlements. |
| Township histories | 309 | Complete chapters from the county histories, reproduced unedited. |
| Listed properties | 1,730 | On the National Register of Historic Places. |
| Words of narrative | 2,972,343 | Public-domain county history, published complete. |
Counties
87 of 87All 87 counties in Minnesota. Every county below has published records and opens its own page.
| Map | County | Settlements | Listed | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aitkin County | 40 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Anoka County | 37 | 20 | 48,509 words | |
| Becker County | 28 | 7 | 26,321 words | |
| Beltrami County | 44 | 11 | not yet read | |
| Benton County | 19 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Big Stone County | 15 | 9 | not yet read | |
| Blue Earth County | 28 | 28 | 65,055 words | |
| Brown County | 16 | 38 | 6,037 words | |
| Carlton County | 31 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Carver County | 28 | 35 | not yet read | |
| Cass County | 41 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Chippewa County | 14 | 8 | not yet read | |
| Chisago County | 22 | 17 | not yet read | |
| Clay County | 25 | 22 | not yet read | |
| Clearwater County | 23 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Cook County | 13 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Cottonwood County | 7 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Crow Wing County | 44 | 31 | not yet read | |
| Dakota County | 37 | 40 | 49,041 words | |
| Dodge County | 17 | 11 | not yet read | |
| Douglas County | 18 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Faribault County | 19 | 11 | 77,202 words | |
| Fillmore County | 41 | 36 | 24,784 words | |
| Freeborn County | 33 | 8 | 35,711 words | |
| Goodhue County | 36 | 60 | 198,845 words | |
| Grant County | 10 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Hennepin County | 72 | 192 | 1,298,636 words | |
| Houston County | 28 | 16 | 83,640 words | |
| Hubbard County | 21 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Isanti County | 30 | 9 | not yet read | |
| Itasca County | 58 | 19 | not yet read | |
| Jackson County | 12 | 5 | 25,103 words | |
| Kanabec County | 11 | 6 | not yet read | |
| Kandiyohi County | 19 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Kittson County | 22 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Koochiching County | 42 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Lac qui Parle County | 12 | 9 | not yet read | |
| Lake County | 50 | 14 | not yet read | |
| Lake of the Woods County | 16 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Le Sueur County | 22 | 28 | not yet read | |
| Lincoln County | 7 | 8 | not yet read | |
| Lyon County | 17 | 12 | 50,070 words | |
| McLeod County | 23 | 7 | 12,079 words | |
| Mahnomen County | 7 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Marshall County | 23 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Martin County | 16 | 8 | not yet read | |
| Meeker County | 23 | 10 | 18,628 words | |
| Mille Lacs County | 17 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Morrison County | 29 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Mower County | 23 | 10 | 79 words | |
| Murray County | 15 | 8 | not yet read | |
| Nicollet County | 19 | 24 | not yet read | |
| Nobles County | 17 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Norman County | 21 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Olmsted County | 32 | 26 | 93,927 words | |
| Otter Tail County | 55 | 27 | 911 words | |
| Pennington County | 14 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Pine County | 32 | 22 | not yet read | |
| Pipestone County | 14 | 16 | 18,795 words | |
| Polk County | 48 | 6 | not yet read | |
| Pope County | 12 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Ramsey County | 26 | 134 | 29,065 words | |
| Red Lake County | 12 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Redwood County | 18 | 23 | 42,825 words | |
| Renville County | 15 | 9 | 42,105 words | |
| Rice County | 21 | 76 | 109,286 words | |
| Rock County | 11 | 20 | not yet read | |
| Roseau County | 26 | 4 | not yet read | |
| St. Louis County | 196 | 126 | 231,703 words | |
| Scott County | 28 | 18 | not yet read | |
| Sherburne County | 16 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Sibley County | 13 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Stearns County | 48 | 36 | 58,051 words | |
| Steele County | 21 | 13 | 11,030 words | |
| Stevens County | 5 | 6 | not yet read | |
| Swift County | 10 | 9 | not yet read | |
| Todd County | 20 | 14 | not yet read | |
| Traverse County | 8 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Wabasha County | 23 | 26 | 83,789 words | |
| Wadena County | 10 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Waseca County | 14 | 12 | 58,826 words | |
| Washington County | 39 | 42 | 42,974 words | |
| Watonwan County | 13 | 6 | not yet read | |
| Wilkin County | 14 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Winona County | 36 | 50 | 64,224 words | |
| Wright County | 34 | 22 | 65,092 words | |
| Yellow Medicine County | 15 | 5 | not yet read |
Settlements in Minnesota
2,251 settlementsNamed places, each with its own page of maps and records. They are listed on the page for the county that holds them, because that is where the rest of a town's record lives too. A place with no page is a place the archive has not reached yet, not a place that does not exist.
Every county in Minnesota, each listing its own settlements.
Provenance
- Boundaries. Census Bureau TIGERweb. A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Place names. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey.
- Counts. Computed from the records this site publishes, not quoted from anywhere. They change when the archive grows.