Dodge County First created in 1855.
County Seat is Mantorville.
Cities, towns and communities include:  Concord, Dodge Center, Hayfield, Mantorville, Vlasaty and Wasioja.
Dodge County is located in southeastern Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Goodhue county to the north; Olmsted county to the east; Mower county to the south; and Steel county to the west, with Rice and Freeborn counties at the northwestern and southwestern corners respectively.

• Kasson-Mantorville Komets - Education/Schools
• Political Graveyard for Dodge County
• Dodge County Genealogy, by Rick Rusinak.
• U.S. Census Bureau for Dodge County Profiles and Population Summaries.
• Zoomable MAP of Dodge County, Minnesota.
• SELCO/SELS :  The Regional Library Office Serving Southeastern Minnesota
• Kasson Public Library
    16 1st Avenue NW - Kasson, MN 55944   Phone: (507) 634-7615.
• Dodge Center Public Library
  
    13 1st Avenue NW - Box 430 - Dodge Center, MN 55927   Phone: (507) 374-2275.
• West Concord Public Library
  
   Box 468 - E. Main - West Concord, MN 55985    Phone: (507) 527-2031.
• Dodge County Recorder (For Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Records)
  
    22 East Sixth Street - P.O. Box 128 - Mantorville, MN 55955   Phone: (507) 635-6250.

• 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

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Additional Research Resources:

• Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.
• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Minnesota State Legislature
• Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
• Minnesota Elections and Voter Registration information.
• Minnesota State Archives - Collection - and Site Map.
• Minnesota's State Government Libraries.
• North Star: Minnesota Libraries.
• LDS: Minnesota Regional Public Library Systems Directory and MAP.
• Minnesota Secretary of State STUDENT PAGE! - includes the following and more:
• State Symbols
• History and Old Stuff :  Minnesota Timeline; Narrative;
• Constitution of the State of Minnesota
• MAPS : 1851 Territorial - 1857 Territorial - 1858 Territorial - 1895 MN State.
• Origin of Minnesota County Names.
• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory +
• +  Minnesota* + Page.
• Explore Minnesota: Tourism - Search by location - Order free publications & travel guides.
• Minnesota Historical Society Library.
• MHS: Minnesota Women's History
Minnesota State History.
The AskRon Newspaper Database
• Minnesota Genealogical Society Library
   5768 Olson Memorial Highway - Golden Valley, MN 55422 Phone: (612) 595-9347.
• MNGenWeb for Minnesota Genealogy
• 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.

Professional  Research
Ann McRoden Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist Researching onsight, and with the vast resources of The Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America.  Search the Library's online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a location or topic.

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Printed resources for this page include:

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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