Blue Earth County is located in southern Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Nicollet and Le Sueur counties to the north; Waseca county to the east; Faribault and Martin counties to the south; and Watonwan and Brown counties to the west.

Blue Earth County Townships:
Beauford, Butternut Valley, Cambria, Ceresco, Danville, Decoria, Garden City, Jamestown,  Judson, Le Ray, Lime, Lincoln, Lyra, Mankato, Mapleton, Mcpherson, Medo, Pleasant Mound, Rapidan, Shelby, South Bend, Sterling, and Vernon Center Townships.

• Blue Earth County, Minnesota
• Blue Earth County Historical Society: features monthly Blue Earth County history information
• Blue Earth County History in Brief and Map
  
• City of Mankato, Minnesota
  
• Synopsis of Mankato, Minnesota History
• Blue Earth County Genealogy
  
• Chief Good Thunder and wife Snana- (He helped save the lives of many settlers during the Dakota Uprising of 1862...)
• Good Thunder, Minnesota
• Good Thunder Fire and Rescue: (Blue Earth County, MN) Fire and Rescue site with a History and minutes of an 1896 Town Meeting.
• Michael Scullin, Professor of Anthropology at Mankato State University
• Cities of Mankato and North Mankato, MN (Maps)
• Streets of Old Mankato - Learn about Mankato's History from 1852!
• City of Eagle Lake, MN
• Minneopa State Park in Blue Earth County, MN
• Traverse des Sioux Library System or Traverse des Sioux Library System
• Member Library Information: Clickable Map - For Information about Individual Public Libraries in Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Le Seur, Martin, Nicollet, Sibley, Waseca and Watonwan Counties.
• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory +
• +  Minnesota* + Page.
• Blue Earth County Historical Society - features monthly Blue Earth County history information.
   415 E Cherry Street - Mankato, MN 56001  Phone: (507) 345-5566.

• Blue Earth County Library
    100 E. Main Street - Mankato, MN  56001

• Blue Earth County License Center
   Vital Statistics - P.O. Box 3524 - Mankato, MN 56002-3524  Phone: (507) 389-8343.
• Blue Earth County Courthouse
  
    204 S. Fifth Street - P.O. Box 3526 - Mankato, MN 56002-3526  Phone: (507) 389-8100.
• 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

• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory +
• +  Minnesota* + Page.
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.
• Tribes in the Minnesota area.
• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Minnesota's State Government Libraries.
• North Star: Minnesota Libraries.
• Minnesota State Symbols.
• Minnesota Historical Society
  
• Minnesota Historical Society Library.
• MHS: Minnesota Women's History
Minnesota State History.
• Minnesota Genealogical Society - Library
   5768 Olson Memorial Highway - Golden Valley, MN 55422 Phone: (612) 595-9347.
• Association of Minnesota Counties.
• History of County Government.
• HPI: Counties in Minnesota.
• Minnesota Township Directory.
• Ancestry.com: Minnesota Resources
• NARA: National Archives and Records Administration.
• The Genealogy Page.
• Library of Congress: American Memory All Collections Search - enter topic or Massachusetts town and/or county location to find available online photos, maps, and more!
• Cyndi's List for Minnesota.
• U.S. Census Bureau Interactive County Maps for Minnesota.
• USA Veterans' Administration
• Animated MAPs: The Formation of the Contiguous States through additions of territories andstates and The Evolution of United States County Boundaries by Ed Stephans.

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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