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MW. FL. HU. There are 87 counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are also several historical counties. On October 27, 1849, nine counties were established: Benton, Dahkotah, Itasca, Ramsey, Mahkahta, Pembina, Wabasha, Washington, and Wahnata. Six of these names still exist. With the foundation of Kittson County on March 9, 1878, Pembina ...
Minnesota (/ ˌmɪnəˈsoʊtə / ⓘ MIN-ə-SOH-tə) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west.
There are 64 state parks, nine state recreation areas, nine state waysides, and 23 state trails in the Minnesota state park system, totaling approximately 267,000 acres (1,080 km 2). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A Minnesota state park is an area of land in the U.S. state of Minnesota preserved by the state for its natural, historic, or other resources.
NCAA Division II – NSIC. NCAA Division I - CCHA, WCHA. Mascot. Stomper. Website. www.mnsu.edu. Minnesota State University, Mankato (MNSU, MSU, or Minnesota State) [9][10] is a public university in Mankato, Minnesota, United States. It is Minnesota's second-largest university [11][12] and has over 145,000 living alumni worldwide. [6]
Minnesota schoolchildren have been the force behind the successful promotion of four official symbols: the blueberry muffin (1988), the monarch butterfly (2000), the Honeycrisp apple (2006), and ice hockey (2009). The 1918 black-and-white photograph Grace, taken by Eric Enstrom in Bovey and later reproduced as a color painting by his daughter ...
Minnesota – U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes ...
St. Croix River (Minnesota, Wisconsin), 169 mi-long (272 km) Sunrise River, 39.1 mi-long (62.9 km) North Branch Sunrise River. West Branch Sunrise River. South Branch Sunrise River. Snake River, 104 mi-long (167 km) Groundhouse River, 39.8 mi-long (64.1 km) South Fork Groundhouse River.
74,815 acres (302.77 km 2) Established in 1905, home to Burntside Lake, portions of the forest are within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Superior National Forest. Centennial. Cass. 3,394 acres (13.74 km 2) Chengwatana. Chisago, Pine. 29,039 acres (117.52 km 2) Established in 1953.