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Kerkhoven Township (/ ˈ k ɜːr k h oʊ v ə n / KURK-hoh-vən) [3] is a township in Swift County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 286 at the 2000 census . Settled in the 1860s, Kerkhoven Township was named for a railroad promoter.
Kerkhoven (/ ˈ k ɜːr k h oʊ v ə n / KURK-hoh-vən) [4] is a city in Swift County, Minnesota, United States, located roughly 100 miles (160 km) west of the Twin Cities region of Minneapolis/St. Paul along U.S. Route 12.
MN 67 west – Clarkfield: Western end of MN 67 concurrency: Granite Falls: 49.062: 78.958: MN 23 west / MN 67 east – Marshall, Redwood Falls: Western end of MN 23 concurrency, eastern end of MN 67 concurrency: Chippewa: Granite Falls Township: 50.469: 81.222: CR 40 / Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway: Chippewa–Renville county line ...
US 12 west (Main Street) – Big Stone City, Milbank: Continuation into South Dakota: Big Stone: Ortonville: 0.821: 1.321: MN 7 west (2nd Street SE) / Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway – Browns Valley: Western end of MN 7 concurrency: 0.950: 1.529: MN 7 east (SE 2nd Street) – Appleton: Eastern end of MN 7 concurrency: 1.350: 2.173
Kandiyohi County is named for a Dakota word meaning "where the buffalo fish come". [5] (kandi’ - the buffalo fish + oh-hi’-yu - v. of hiyu - to come through). [6]It was organized on March 20, 1858, with Kandiyohi established as the county seat in 1870 (it was then called Kandiyohi Station, as it was merely a stop on the railroad line).
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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]
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.