Itasca County is located in northern Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Koochiching county to the north; St. Louis county to the east; Aitkin to the south; Cass county to the southwest and Beltrami county to the west.

Alvwood Township: Alvwood Arbo Township: Ardenhurst Township: Bergville Balsam Township:  Bass Brook Township: Cohasset Bearville Township: Bigfork Township: Bigfork Blackberry Township: Blackberry, Phibin Bowstring Township: Ingar, Bowstring, Turtle Mound Carpenter Township: Togo Deer River Township: Deer River Feeley Township: Goodland Township: Goodland Good Hope Township:Dunbar Grand Rapids Township: Grand Rapids, Gunn, La Prairie Grattan Township: Lost Forty Greenway Township: Calumet, Cort, Jurgenson, Marble, Silverwood. Harris Township: Iron Range Township: Bovey, Coleraine, Holman, Taconite Junction. Nore Township:  Hount, Orth Kinghurst Township: Cambridge, Grandy

Lake Jessie Township: Jessie Lake, Spring Lake Lawrence Township: Liberty Township: Lone Pine Township: Cooley, Kevin, Noyes. Marcell Township:Marcell Max Township: Max, Oslund, Squaw Lake Moose Park Township: Morse Township:  Nashwauk Township: Bennett, Nashwauk Oteneagen Township: Pomroy Township: Harrison Landing, Pomroy Sago Township: Sand Lake Township: Spang Township: Splithand Township: Stokes Township: Jaynes Third River Township: Rosy Trout Lake Township: Wabana Township: Wawina Township: Swan River, Wawina Wirt Township: Bass Lake, Wirt

• Leech Lake Indian Reservation -

   The tribal headquarters is in Cass Lake, Cass County, Minnesota.
• U.S. Census Bureau for Itasca County Profiles and Population Summaries.
• Interactive MAP of Itasca County, Minnesota.
• USGS: Maps of Itasca County, Minnesota 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.
• The Political Graveyard, for Itasca County, Minnesota, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
• ItascaNet Home Page
• Itasca County Government Information
• Itasca County Recorder - Public Records Information and Addresses.
• Itasca County Recorders/Registrars Office (Birth & Death Records Fees)
   123 NE 4th Street - Grand Rapids, MN 55744  Phone: (218) 327-2856.
• Explore Minnesota Leech Lake area - Tourism
• Chippewa National Forest
• George Washington State Forest
• Mississippi Headwaters Board: Protecting the first 400 miles of the Mississippi River... (Walker, Cass County site includes the area of Aitkin, Beltrami, Cass, Clear Water, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Itasca, and Morrison Minnesota counties.)
• Mississippi River Basin Headwaters Map.
• Itasca State Park and Headwaters History Center: "...located at the Mississippi Headwaters, is where you can learn and explore the history of the Mississippi River and its people..."
• Itasca County Historical Society
  • 10 NW 5th Street, Grand Rapids, MN 55744
  • Iron Rangers, Lumberjacks and Papermakers: Perspectives on the Diverse History of Itasca County, Minnesota, by Don Boese, a local historian
• White Oak Society, Deer River, MN - fur trading era (late 1600's to mid-1800's)
• The Edge of the Wilderness
• Memories of Nashwauk - memories submitted and changed regularly
• Welcome to Bigfork
• City of Grand Rapids, Minnesota
• The Arrowhead Library System
 
• Itasca County, Minnesota
• Itasca County Recorder (For Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Records)
   Courthouse: 123 Fourth Street Northeast - Grand Rapids, MN 55744-2600
      Phone: (218) 327-2856.

• 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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