Pipestone County is located in southwestern Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Lincoln county to the north; Murray county to the east; and Rock county to the south.  The South Dakota county of Moody is across the boundary to the west.

• The National Parks Service: for Pipestone National Monument in Pipestone, MN
• Pipestone County Historical Society and Museum
   113 S. Hiawatha Avenue - Pipestone, MN 56164   Phone: (507) 825-2563.
• History and More!
• Pipestone Indian Shrine Assoc.
• MNGenweb for Pipestone County Genealogy, by Judy Wallis White!
• Pipestone Community Library
  
   400 2nd Street SW - Pipestone, MN 56164   Phone: (507) 825-5303.
• Pipestone County Recorder (For Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Records)
   416 South Hiawatha - Pipestone, MN 56164  Phone: (507) 825-6755.

• 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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