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Willmar was established as the county seat in 1871 and was incorporated as a village in 1874 and as a city in 1901. [9] Willmar was the site of a bank robbery by the Machine Gun Kelly gang on July 15, 1930. They robbed the Bank of Willmar (later Otto Bremer Trust) of about $70,000 (equivalent to $1,277,000 in 2023) and wounded three people. [10]
Willmar Township is a township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 661 at the 2000 census. The population was 661 at the 2000 census. History
Minnesota State Highway 40 (MN 40) is a 72.723-mile-long (117.036 km) state highway in west-central Minnesota, which travels from South Dakota Highway 20 (SD 20) at the South Dakota state line near Marietta and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with County State-Aid Highway 5 (CSAH 5) in Willmar.
Kandiyohi County (/ ˌ k æ n d i ˈ j oʊ h aɪ / KAN-dee-YOH-hy) [2] is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, its population is 43,732. [3] As of November 20, 1871, its county seat is Willmar. [4] Kandiyohi County comprises the US Census Bureau's "Willmar, MN Micropolitan Statistical Area".
MN 23 directly serves Pipestone, Marshall, Granite Falls, Willmar, Paynesville, Cold Spring, St. Cloud, Foley, Milaca, Mora, Hinckley, Sandstone, and Duluth.. Portions of MN 23 that have been upgraded to a four-lane expressway include approximately nine miles (14 km) in the Marshall area in addition to longer stretches between Willmar and New London, and between Richmond and Waite Park (St ...
U.S. Highway 12 (US 12) is a 192.798-mile-long (310.278 km) United States Numbered Highway in west- and east-central Minnesota, which travels from the South Dakota state line at Ortonville near Big Stone Lake and continues east to the St. Croix River at the Wisconsin state line.
July 24, 1986 (Off County Highway 5: Willmar vicinity: Circa-1858 log cabin, one of Kandiyohi County's oldest buildings on its original site and a rare vestige of its Euro-American settlement prior to the Dakota War of 1862, in which numerous pioneers were killed (including two Endresons) and most of the rest abandoned the area for several years. [8]
U.S. Highway 212 (US 212) within the state of Minnesota travels from the South Dakota state line in the west, crosses the southwestern part of the state, to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in the east and end at its interchange with US 169 and State Highway 62 (MN 62) in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina.