BlockKrain Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915. 189 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Anthony | 2 | - | 1 | - |
| Saint Francis | 29 | - | 3 | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 2 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
189 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Krain Township
Krain is situated in the northeast portion of the county, and adjoins Holding on the west. It has an area of about 28,800 acres,. There are a number of small lakes, and a considerable acreage of swamp land, the latter being covered with a good growth of tamarack.
William Henry Helsper was, undoubtedly, the first settler in this town. He was a native of Prussia, and settled on section eighteen in 1868. James Graham followed Mr. Helsper the same year, and settled near him. James Gasperlin came the following year, and settled on section twentyeight.
Krain was organized in 1872, and the first officers elected were: Supervisors, W. H. Helsper, chairman; Mathias Pogatschnik, and John Muyres; clerk, Joseph Gasperlin; justice of the peace, James Graham; and assessor, Ulrich Schelesnik.
The first school was taught by Joseph Gasperlin, at his residence, the term commencing January 12, 1874. Number ninety-eight was organized in 1874, and the school house located on section thirty-two. District number one hundred and fourteen was organized in the fall of 1878, and the first school kept by Cyrus S. Brock. The building was erected in section twenty.
Provenance
Text from History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.