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Minnesota County Creation Dates and Parent Counties

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Tip: Sort the table by Date Formed or by Parent Counties and check Boundary Changes for interesting insights.
Name of County Date Formed Boundary
Changes 		Parent County Counties Created by Boundary Changes
Aitkin 1857 May 23 Details Cass, Ithaca Crow Wing 1857
Andy Johnson 1863 Mar 06 JOHNSON Details renamed from Tombs renamed Wilkin 1868
Anoka 1857 May 23 Details Ramsey Isanti 1857
Becker 1858 Mar 18 Details Indian lands Mahomen 1906
Beltrami 1866 Feb 28 Details Minnesota Territory Clearwater 1902, Lake of the Woods 1922
Benton 1849 Oct 27 Details Minnesota Territory Morrison 1856, Sherburne 1856
Big Stone 1862 Feb 20 Details Pierce Stevens 1862
Blue Earth 1853 Mar 05 Details Minnesota Territory Brown 1855, Faribault 1855
Breckenridge 1858 Mar 18 Details Minnesota Territory renamed Clay 1862
Brown 1855 Feb 20 Details Nicollett, Blue Earth Cottonwood 1857, Martin 1857, Rock 1857, Watonwan 1860, Redwood 1862
Buchanan 1855 Feb 20 Details Minnesota Territory dissolved
Carlton 1857 May 23 Details Pine, Saint Louis none
Carver 1855 Feb 20 Details Hennepin McLeod 1856
Cass 1851 Mar 31 Details Minnesota Territory Aitkin 1857, Crow Wing 1857, Hubbard 1883, Ottero Trail 1858, Waden 1858, Wilkin 1858, Tombs 1858
Chippewa 1862 Feb 20 Details Pierce Swift 1870
Chisago 1851 Mar 31 Details Washington none
Clay 1862 Mar 06 Details renamed from Beckinridge none
Clearwater 1902 Dec 20 Details Beltrami none
Cook 1874 Mar 09 Details Lake none
Cottonwood 1857 May 23 Details Brown none
Crow Wing 1857 May 23 WING Details Cass, Aitkin none
Dakota 1849 Oct 27 Details Minnesota Territory Hennepin 1852, Scott 1853
Dodge 1855 Feb 20 Details Olmstead Steele 1855
Doty 1855 Feb 20 Details Minnesota Territory renamed Newton 1855
Douglas 1858 Mar 08 Details Todd none
Faribault 1855 Feb 20 Details Blue Earth Martin 1857
Fillmore 1853 Mar 05 Details Wabasha Houston 1854, Mower 1855
Freeborn 1855 Feb 20 Details Minnesota Territory Mower 1855
Goodhue 1853 Mar 05 Details Wabasha none
Grant 1868 Mar 06 Details Stearns none
Hennepin 1852 Mar 06 Details Dakota Carver 1855, Wright 1855
Houston 1854 Feb 23 Details Fillmore none
Hubbard 1883 Feb 26 Details Cass none
Isanti 1857 Feb 13 Details Anoka none
Itasca 1849 Oct 27 Details Minnesota Territory Aitkin 1857, Koochiching 1906, St. Louis 1855, Superior 1855
Jackson 1857 May 23 Details Minnesota Territory Nobles 1857
Kanabec 1858 Mar 13 Details Pine Mille Lacs 1857
Kandiyohi 1858 Mar 20 Details Meeker none
Kittson 1878 Mar 09 Details renamed from Pembina Marshall 1879, Roseau 1894
Koochiching 1906 Dec 19 Details Itasca none
Lac qui Parle 1871 Mar 06 Details Brown, Redwood none
Lac qui Parle (old) 1862 2 18 Details Toombs split to Stevens 1862, Chippewa 1862
Lake 1856 Mar 01 Details Minnesota Territory Cook 1874
Lake of the Woods 1922 Nov 28 OF THE WOODS Details Beltrami none
Le Sueur 1853 Mar 05 Details Minnesota Territory none
Lincoln 1866 Mar 01 Details Lyon none
Lyon 1868 Mar 06 Details Redwood Lincoln 1866, Murray 1857
Mahnomen 1906 Dec 27 Details Becker, Norman none
Mankato (Mankahta) 1849 Oct 27 Details Minnesota Territory none
Marshall 1879 Feb 25 Details Kittson none
Martin 1857 May 23 Details Faribautl, Brown none
McLeod 1856 Mar 01 Details Carver none
Meeker 1856 Feb 23 Details Wright, Stearns Kandiyohi 1858
Mille Lacs 1857 May 23 LACS Details Kanabec none
Monongalia 1849 Oct 27 Details Minnesota Territory dissolved
Morrison 1856 Feb 25 Details Benton, Stearns none
Mower 1855 Feb 20 Details Fillmore, Freeborn none
Murray 1857 May 23 Details Lyon Pipestone 1857
Nicollet 1853 Mar 05 Details Minnesota Territory Brown 1855
Nobles 1857 May 23 Details Jackson Rock 1857
Norman 1881 Feb 17 Details Polk Mahnomen 1906
Olmsted 1855 Feb 20 Details Minnesota Territory Dodge 1855
Otter Tail 1858 Mar 18 TAIL Details Pembina, Cass none
Pembina 1849 Oct 27 Details Minnesota Territory Otter trail 1858, renamed Kittson 1878
Pennington 1910 Nov 23 Details Red Lake none
Pierce 1843 Mar 05 Details Minnesota Territory split to Big Stone 1862, Chippewa 1862, Pope 1862, Stevens 1862
Pine 1856 Mar 01 Details Minnesota Territory Carlton1857, Kanabec 1858
Pipestone 1857 May 23 Details Murray none
Polk 1858 Jul 20 Details Indian lands Norman 1881, Red Lake 1869
Pope 1862 Feb 20 Details Pierce none
Ramsey 1849 Oct 27 Details Minnesota Territory Anoka 1857
Red Lake 1896 Dec 24 Details Polk Pennington 1910
Redwood 1862 Feb 20 Details Brown Lyon 1868, Yellow Medicine 1871
Renville 1855 Feb 20 Details Minnesota Territory none
Rice 1853 Mar 05 Details Minnesota Territory none
Rock 1857 May 23 Details Nobles, Brown none
Roseau 1894 Feb 28 Details Kittson none
Saint Louis 1855 Feb 20 Details renamed from Superior Carlton 1857
Scott 1853 Mar 05 Details Dakota none
Sherburne 1856 Feb 25 Details Benton none
Sibley 1853 Mar 05 Details Minnesota Territory none
Stearns 1855 Feb 20 Details Indian lands Grant 1868, Meeker 1856, Todd 1855, Morrison 1856
Steele 1855 Feb 20 Details Minnesota Territory, Dodge Waseca 1857
Stevens 1862 Feb 20 Details Pierce, Big Stone none
Superior 1847 Oct 27 Details Itasca renamed Saint Louis 1855
Swift 1870 Feb 18 Details Chippewa, Minnesota Territory none
Todd 1855 Feb 20 Details Stearns Douglas 1858, Wadena 1858
Toombs 1858 Mar 18 Details Pembina renamed Andy Johnson 1863
Traverse 1862 Feb 20 Details Toombs none
Wabasha 1849 Oct 27 Details Minnesota Territory Fillmore 1853, Goodhue 1853
Wadena 1858 Jun 11 Details Cass, Todd none
Wahnata 1855 Feb 20 Details Minnesota Territory dissolved
Waseca 1857 Feb 27 Details Steele none
Washington 1849 Oct 27 Details Minnesota Territory Chisago 1851
Watonwan 1860 Feb 25 Details Brown none
Wilkin 1868 Mar 06 Details renamed from Andy Johnson none
Winona 1854 Feb 23 Details Minnesota Territory none
Wright 1855 Feb 20 Details Hennepin Meeker 1856
Yellow Medicine 1871 Mar 06 MEDICINE Details Redwood none

References

  1. ↑ [http://historical-county.newberry.org/website/Minnesota/viewer.htm Minnesota Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, John H. Long, Editor; Peggy Tuck Sinko, Associate Editor; Gordon DenBoer, Historical Compiler; Douglas Knox, Book Digitizing Director and Digital Compiler; Emily Kelley, Research Associate; Laura Rico-Beck, GIS Specialist; Peter Siczewicz, ArcIMS Interactive Map Designer; Robert Will, Cartographic Assistant. Copyright The Newberry Library 2008.
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