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Kanabec County, Minnesota

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

6historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

16,032pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Mora, Ogilvie.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Minnesota is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Kanabec titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 6 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Ann River Logging Company Farm	Mora	Building	1980
Coin School	Mora	Building	2025
Kanabec County Courthouse	Mora	Building	1977
Knife Lake Prehistoric District	Mora	District	1974
Ogilvie Watertower	Ogilvie	Structure	1980
Williams, C. E., House	Mora	Building	1980

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kanabec was formed in 1858 (1858-10-12) from Pine.

KANABEC created from PINE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Kanabec County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
30	505	4,614	9,086	9,651	9,192	9,007	12,161	14,996	16,032

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

9 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Graceland Cemetery	45.81329	-93.43161
Grass Lake Cemetery	45.76635	-93.17133
Grasston Union Cemetery	45.79163	-93.16827
Knife Lake Cemetery	45.90843	-93.31305
Mission Cemetery	45.73096	-93.18499
Riverside Cemetery	45.78992	-93.28198
Saint Kathryn Cemetery	45.83579	-93.43245
Saint Marys Cemetery	45.85718	-93.28689
Trinity Cemetery	46.12216	-93.07576

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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