Clay County is located in western Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Norman county to the north; Becker county to the east; Otter Tail and Wilkin counties to the south; and the North Dakota county of Cass to the west.

• Clay County, Minnesota, operates a Geographic Information System (GIS) - "...to provide current and accurate geo-spatial information to County departments and the general public....
• USGS: Maps of Clay 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.
• Tiger: An Interactive, Zoomable Map of Clay County, MN.
• The City of Moorehead, Minnesota includes a Brief History of Moorehead from 1870.
• Fargo-Moorehead Convention and Visitors web site.
• Fargo-Moorehead Chamber of Commerce
• Heritage Education Commission - an organization of Moorehead State University.
• Clay County Historical Society - Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center
     202 1st Avenue N - P. O. Box 501 - Moorhead, MN  56560
    Phone: (218) 233-4604; (218) 299-5511.
• Then and Now, by the Clay County Historical Society - online photo tour of Clay County.
• The Stave Church - with "Building a Stave Church: Processes and Parts in the Construction of God’s Wooden Houses".
• Hjemkomst Viking Ship.
• Clay County
• Lake Agassiz Regional Library / Moorhead City Library
    118 5th Street S - Moorhead, MN  56560  Phone: (218) 233-3757 or (218) 233-7594.
• City of Barnesville Web Page with history.
• Regional News: InForum - includes Records/Obituaries
• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory +
• +  Minnesota* + Page (Clay County is within the Catholic Diocese of Crookston).
• Clay County Probate Court
  
    807 11th Ave. N - Moorhead, MN  56560  Phone: (218) 299-5068.
• Clay County Vital Statistics
    807 11th Street N 2nd Floor - Moorhead, MN  56560  Phone: (218) 299-5032.
• Clay County Recorder
     807 11th Street N - Moorhead, MN 56560  Phone: (218) 299-5031.
• 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

• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory +
• +  Minnesota* + Page.
• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.
• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Minnesota State Archives.
• Minnesota's State Government Libraries.
• North Star: Minnesota Libraries.
• Minnesota State Symbols.
• Minnesota Historical Society Library.
• MHS: Minnesota Women's History
Minnesota State History.
• Minnesota Genealogical SocietyLibrary
   5768 Olson Memorial Highway - Golden Valley, MN 55422 Phone: (612) 595-9347.
• Ancestry.com: Minnesota Resources
• NARA: National Archives and Records Administration.
• The Genealogy Page.
• Library of Congress: American Memory All Collections Search - enter topic or Massachusetts town and/or county location to find available online photos, maps, and more!
• U.S. Census Bureau Interactive County Maps for Minnesota.
• USA Veterans' Administration
• Animated MAPs: The Formation of the Contiguous States through additions of territories andstates and The Evolution of United States County Boundaries by Ed Stephans.

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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