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May 23, 1980 (326 Laurel St. Brainerd: Long-serving government center, consisting of a 1916 jail/sheriff's residence (now a museum) and a courthouse (built 1919–20) further noted as Crow Wing County's most prominent public building and an exemplary fruit of the City Beautiful movement.
Brainerd (/ ˈ b r eɪ n ər d / BRAY-nərd) is a city and the county seat of Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States.Its population was 14,395 at the 2020 census. [4] [6] Brainerd straddles the Mississippi River several miles upstream from its confluence with the Crow Wing River, having been founded as a site for a railroad crossing above the confluence.
Crow Wing is an unincorporated community in Crow Wing Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States, south of Brainerd and Baxter. It is along State Highway 371 ( MN 371 ) near 50th Avenue SW and 85th Street.
Crow Wing's heyday came to a swift end. In 1868 the Ojibwe were resettled in the White Earth Indian Reservation. In 1871 railroad magnate James J. Hill decided to route his Northern Pacific Railroad over the Mississippi River in Brainerd, 10 miles (16 km) to the north. By 1880 most of Crow Wing's residents had moved on.
Location: Cass / Crow Wing counties, Minnesota, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Primary outflows: Gull River: Catchment area: Crow Wing Watershed: Basin countries: United States: Max. length: 15.3 mi (25 km): Max. width: 3.3 mi (5 km): Surface area: 9,947.03 acres (40.2542 km 2): Average depth: 30 ft (9 m): Max. depth: 80 ft (24 m): Water volume: 298,410 acre⋅ft (0.36808 km 3): Shore length ...
Crow Wing Township is a township in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,212 at the 2000 census . Crow Wing Township was named after a former Indian village within its borders.
The territorial government enacted the county's creation on May 23, 1857, and named Crow Wing the county seat. [4] The governmental structure of the county was not effected until March 3, 1870. The county was named for the river, [5] which is named for an island in the river that resembles a crow's wing. Brainerd township was founded in 1870 ...
The Crow Wing River is a 113-mile-long (182 km) [5] tributary of the Mississippi River in Minnesota, United States. The river rises at an elevation of about 1391 feet in a chain of 11 lakes in southern Hubbard County, Minnesota , and flows generally south, then east, [ 6 ] entering the Mississippi at Crow Wing State Park northwest of Little ...