BlockSt. Wendel Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915. 178 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collegeville | 3 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Saint Wendel | 2 | - | - | - |
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
178 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.
St. Wendel Township
St. Wendel lies in tlie northeastern portion of the county, and has an area of 23,- 040 acres. The surface is undulating.. The south fork of Watab river flows in a northeasterly direction across the southeast part, and a number of small creeks meander through the town in various directions. A number of lakes dot the surface, the largest of which is Watab Lake in the southeast, and Big Marsh Lake in the northeast.
Probably the first settler in this town was a Mr. Merkling, who settled on section thirty-four some time prior to 1854. K. Eich settled on section twenty-four in 1854. John Haar made a claim on section twenty-six in 1856..
This territory was a part of Brockway for many years, but organized with the name of Hancock, in the spring of 1868, and changed to St. Wendel the same summer. The first records were kept on slips of paper which cannot now be found. John I. Salter, who settled in section 22, in 1867, was the first chairman of supervisors, and the first town clerk.
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.