Note:  Though a lake by the name of Round Lake is located in Jackson County, the community of
    "Round Lake" is situated at the county line in Nobles County, MN.
 
Jackson County is located in southern Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Cottonwood county to the north; Watonwan county at the northeast corner; Martin to the east; Nobles to the west and Murray at the northwest corner; with the counties of Osceola, Dickinson and Emmet, in the state of Iowa, which is Jackson County's southern neighbor.

• U.S. Census Bureau for Jackson County Profiles and Population Summaries.
• Interactive MAP of Jackson County, Minnesota.
• Jackson County Cemeteries
• USGS: Maps of Jackson 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 City of Jackson, Minnesota includes Jackson History and Historic Sites!
• Jackson Churches.
• Jackson County Pilot Online: Jackson, Minnesota News and Information.
• Jackson County Genealogy and Historical Links, by Carl C. Bloomquist.
• Jackson County Historical Society and Museum
    Museum Address: 307 North Highway 86 - Lakefield, MN 56150
    Mailing Address: Box 238, Lakefield, MN 56150
    Phone:  (507) 662-5505.  Further Information.
• Jackson County Courthouse Museum
  
    Jackson County Courthouse - Jackson, MN 56143
• Jackson - Cottonwood Genealogical Group
  
     Mailing Address:  Box 238 - Lakefield, MN 56150    Phone: (507) 662-5505.
• The Plum Creek Library System
• Jackson Public Library
  
    311 3rd Street - Jackson, MN 56143-1606     Phone: (507) 847-4748.
• Jackson County Recorder (For Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Records)
   P.O. Box 209 - Jackson, MN 56143     Phone: (507) 847-2580.

• 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

 Delafield Cemetery:  Latitude:  434818N ; Longitude:  0950809W
     Located, southeast of Wilder, in Delafield Township - See Map.

 East Belmont Cemetery:  Latitude:  434248N ; Longitude:  0950127W
     Located in Belmont Township, west of Hwy 71 - See Map.

 Good Shepherd Cemetery:  Latitude: 433629N; Longitude:  0945932W
     Located in the City of Jackson, Des Moines Township - See Map.

 Hauges Cemetery:  Latitude: 434533N;  Longitude:  0945934W
     Located near Hwy 71 and the border of Belmont and Christiania Townships - See Map.

 Heron Lake Cemetery:  Located near Lake Flaherty, in Heron Lake Township - See Map.
    Latitude: 434359N;  Longitude:  0951123W

 Hillside Cemetery:  Latitude:  433620N;  Longitude:  0945826W
     Located in the City of Jackson, Des Moines Township - See Map.

 Holy Trinity Cemetery:  Latitude: 433322N;  Longitude:  0951111W
     Located in Minneota Township - See Map.

 Immanuel Cemetery:  Latitude:  434058N;  Longitude:  0951104W
     Located, at the western edge of Lakefield, in Heron Lake Township - See Map.

 Lakeside Cemetery:  Latitude:  434813N;  Longitude:  0951855W
     Located just north of the town of Heron Lake, in Weimer Township - See Map.

 Norwegian Cemetery:  Latitude:  433213N;  Longitude:  0952111W
     Located in Sioux Valley Township - See Map.

 Petersburg Cemetery:  Latitude:  433121N;  Longitude:  0945506W
     Located in Petersburg Township - See Map.
 
 Riverside Cemetery: Latitude:  433633N;  Longitude:  0945933W
     Located in the City of Jackson, Des Moines Township - See Map.

 Sacred Heart Cemetery:  Latitude: 434910N;  Longitude:  0951937W
     Located in Weimer Township, near the La Crosse Township border - See Map.

 Saint Johns Cemetery:  Located in Petersburg Township - See Map.
     Latitude:  433239N;  Longitude:  0945241W

 Saint Pauls Cemetery:  Latitude:  433658N;  Longitude:  0951644W
     Located in Rost Township, southwest of Lakefield - See Map.

 Saint Peter Cemetery:  Latitude:  434543N;  Longitude:  0951139W
     Located in southern Delafield Township, at the Heron Township boundary - See Map.

 Sioux Valley Cemetery:  Latitude:  433139N;  Longitude:  0951817W
     Located in Sioux Valley Township - See Map.

 Sunset Cemetery:  Latitude:  433631N;  Longitude:  0945945W
     Located in the City of Jackson, Des Moines Township - See Map.

 West Belmont Cemetery:  Latitude:  434214N;  Longitude:  0950314W
     Located in Belmont Township - See Map.
 

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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