St. Louis County is located in northeastern Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Lake county to the east; Carlton county to the south; Aitkin county to the southwest; Itasca and Koochiching counties to the west.  The Province of Ontario, Canada is its northern neighbor.
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• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council - Bois Forte (Net Lake)
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council - Fond du Lac
• Saint Louis County Home Page
• St. Louis County Recorder's Office - Genealogy requests
   St. Louis County Court House
   Mailing address: P. O. Box 157, Duluth, MN 55801-0157  Phone: 218-726-2677
"...over 150 types of legal documents, most of which pertain to real estate or
 personal property. The office accepts for filing and issues copies of military discharges, state and federal tax liens as well as birth and death records..."
• The Political Graveyard, for St. Louis County, Minnesota, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
• U.S. Census Bureau for St. Louis County Profiles and Population Summaries.
• Zoomable MAP of St. Louis County, Minnesota.
• USGS: Maps of St. Louis 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.
• Superior National Forest (Cook County, Lake County & western St. Louis Co.)
• Northeastern Minnesota's Iron Trail Region - Convention & Visitors Bureau Guide 2000.
• Visit the Cities of the Iron Trail - Aurora, Biwabik, Chisholm, Eveleth, Gilbert, Hibbing, Hoyt Lakes, Mt. Iron, Virginia and Town of White.
• The Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board - "...was created by the Minnesota Legislature in 1941 for the purpose of preparing Northeastern Minnesota for the decline of the natural ore and timber industries..."
 
• Aurora Public Library
  
    14 W 2nd Avenue N. - Aurora, MN 55705   Phone: (218) 229-2021.
• Photos of Duluth, MN from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection
• City of Duluth
• Duluth, Minnesota news and information
  
• Duluth Public Library
  
   520 W. Superior Street - Duluth, MN  55802   Phone: (218) 723-3800.
• History of Mining: Ironworld Discovery Center in Chisolm, MN
• History of Ely, MN from 1700s fur trade, though Ely was not incorporated until 1888.
• Sigurd F. Olson (1899-1982): Author and Conservationist - born in Chicago, IL, resided in Ely, MN
• Embarrass, Minnesota
• Welcome to Eveleth, Minnesota
• History of Eveleth
• Iron Trail Convention & Visitors Bureau - Eveleth, MN
• Eveleth Public Library
  
     614 Pierce Street - Eveleth, MN 55734   Phone: (218) 744-4913.
• Gilbert Public Library
  
     17 N. Broadway - Gilbert, MN 55741   Phone: (218) 741-6023.
• The Moods of Lake Vermilion: Gary Nordlie's Photos.
• Pictures of Lake Vermilion
• Mountain Iron Public Library
  
    5742 Mountain Avenue - Mountain Iron, MN 55768    Phone: (218) 735-8625.
• Virginia Public Library
  
      215 S. 5th Avenue - Virginia, MN 55792   Phone: (218) 741-2260.
• Minnesota Libraries Map:
• Arrowhead Library System
  
   701 11th Street N - Virginia, MN 55792  Phone: (218) 741-3840.
• St. Louis County Recorder (For Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Records)
    100 North Fifth Avenue West - P.O. Box 157 - Duluth, MN 55801-0157
     Phone: (218) 726-2559.

• 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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