Grant County is located in western Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Otter Tail county to the north; Douglas county to the east; Pope county at the southeast corner; Stevens county to the south and Wilkin and Traverse counties to the west.

• U.S. Census Bureau for Grant County Profiles and Population Summaries.
• Zoomable MAP of Grant County, Minnesota.
• USGS: Maps of Grant County, Minnesota features - including cemeteries, churches, populated places and more.  To retrieve locations of features, simply select Minnesota from the drop-down menu, then enter the county name, and the feature you wish to search, then click on send query.  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.
• Elbow Lake, Minnesota Civic & Commerce Assn.
• Area Churches
• USGenweb Archives for Grant County - includes gravestone abstractions and cemetery information for several Grant County cemeteries and the following:
• Grant County, Minnesota 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll, Contributed to the genweb archives by Kenneth Thomas, <thomask@iland.net>, February 1999.
• USGenweb for Grant County Genealogy, by Jerimiah Moerke, of Elbow Lake.
• Grant County Churches
• The Political Graveyard, for Grant County, Minnesota, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
• Photos: Library of Congress American Memory Collection (ca. 1880-1910)
search by town or category in this collection
• Grant County Herald - News and Business Directory Online.
• Grant County Historical Museum
      Highway 79 E. & 1st Ave. NE - Elbow Lake, MN 56531  Phone: (218) 685-4864.
• Elbow Lake Thorson Memorial Library
      1117 Central Ave. N. - Box 1040 - Elbow Lake, MN 56531   Phone:  (218) 685-6850.
• Grant County Recorder (For Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Records)
   10 Second Street Northeast - Elbow Lake, MN 56531-4300   Phone: (218) 685-4133.

• 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

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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