Clearwater County, Minnesota First created in 1902 from Beltrami County.
County Seat is Bagley.
Cities, towns and communities include:  Alida, Bagley,  Clearbrook,  Gonvick, Mallard and Zerkel.

Clearwater County is located in northwestern Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Beltrami county to the north and east; Hubbard county to the east; Becker county to the south; and Mahnomen, Polk and Pennington counties to the west.

• Red Lake, Minnesota, Ojibwe Reservation
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council - Red Lake
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council - White Earth
• White Earth Band of Chippewa (Indian Reservation) - located in Mahonomen, Becker and Clearwater counties, Minnesota.
  
   P.O. Box 418, White Earth, MN 56591  Phone:  (218) 983-3285 ext 235.
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council - this site has information concerning Minnesota Anishinaabe (Chippewa, Ojibwe) reservations and Dakota (Sioux) communities.
• Clearwater County Historical Society
  
   P.O. Box 241  Bagley, MN   56621  Phone: (218) 785-2000.
• Itasca State Park!
• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory +
• +  Minnesota* + Page (Clay County is within the Catholic Diocese of Crookston).
• Bagley Public Library
    Main Street - Bagley, MN 56621  Phone: (218) 694-6201.
• Clearwater County Recorder
     213 Main Avenue N - Bagley, MN 56621  Phone: (218) 694-6129.
• 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

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Additional Research Resources:

• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory +
• +  Minnesota* + Page.
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.
• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Minnesota State Archives.
• Minnesota's State Government Libraries.
• North Star: Minnesota Libraries.
• Minnesota State Symbols.
• Minnesota Historical Society Library.
• MHS: Minnesota Women's History
Minnesota State History.
• Minnesota Genealogical SocietyLibrary
   5768 Olson Memorial Highway - Golden Valley, MN 55422 Phone: (612) 595-9347.
• 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!
• 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.

Professional  Research
Ann McRoden Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist Researching onsight, and with the vast resources of The Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America.  Search the Library's online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a location or topic.

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Printed resources for this page include:

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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