Benton County is located in central Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Morrison county to the north; Mille Lacs county to the east; Sherburne county to the south; and Stearns county to the west.

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• Benton County, Minnesota
• U.S. Census Bureau: State & County QuickFacts for Benton County, Minnesota
• Tiger Interactive Map of Benton County, Minnesota, 1990.
• 1895 Map of Benton County, Indiana, by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net
• Minnesota Historical Society Library
• Minnesota Online Death Index, 1908 through 1946.
• Benton County Historical Society and Museum
  
    115 2nd Avenue N - Sauk Rapids, MN  56379 Phone: (320) 253-9614.
• City of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota includes a brief History of Sauk Rapids
• Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Cloud [est. 1889] and Parish Directory - For Catholic Church records and information.
• USGS: Map locations of Benton County features including cemeteries, churches, populated places and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
• Benton County Profile, Genealogy and Information - by Ron Zurek.
• Great River Regional Libary - "...Serving the residents of Benton, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wright Counties and the City of St. Cloud.
• Foley Community Library
    251 N 4th Avenue - Foley, MN  56329  Phone: (320) 968-6612.
• Benton County Courthouse
   531 Dewey Street - Foley, MN 56329 Phone: (320) 968-5000.
• Benton County Clerk
  
   Route 2 - Foley, MN 56329-9802 Phone: (320) 968-6254.
• Benton County Recorder
  
 531 Dewey Street - P.O. Box 129 - Foley, MN 56329 Phone: (320) 968-5037.
• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Department of Health
• How to order a birth or death certificate from the Minnesota Department of Health.
Contact the Minnesota Department of Health for certified Birth records from 1900 and certified Death records from 1908.  Certificates may be ordered by mail, phone, fax, and in person at the office.  There is a fee for obtaining birth or death certificates.
Minnesota Department of Health
  Attention: Vital Records
  717 Delaware Street Southeast
  P.O. Box 9441
  Minneapolis, MN  55440-9441
  Phone: 612-676-5120 (For birth records, press 4; For death records, press 5)
Records prior to these years, may be requested from the County  Registrar/Recorder in the county where the event occurred.
• Instructions on obtaining certificates of marriage or divorce decrees and index search.
• MN Dept. of Health list of County Registrars/Recorders: choose county

• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.
• Minnesota Historical Society Library.
• MHS: Minnesota Women's History
• Minnesota State History.

School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.
 
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