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Mahnomen County, Minnesota

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1906formed

5,411pop. 2020

16cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1984. Most listings are in or near Mahnomen.

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 Mahnomen titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Mahnomen City Hall	Mahnomen	Building	1988
Mahnomen County Courthouse	Mahnomen	Building	1984
Mahnomen County Fairgrounds Historic District	Mahnomen	District	1989

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Mahnomen was formed in 1906 (1906-11-06) from Norman.

MAHNOMEN created from NORMAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Mahnomen County population from 1910 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,249	6,197	8,054	7,059	6,341	5,535	5,190	5,411

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

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

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bejou Cemetery	47.45525	-95.97707
Duane Cemetery	47.41838	-95.75775
First Lutheran Cemetery	47.31439	-95.98473
Indian Cemetery	47.26662	-95.64947
Lake Grove Cemetery	47.16508	-95.82691
North Duane Cemetery	47.44389	-95.76202
Pine Bend Cemetery	47.42712	-95.58804
Riverside Cemetery	47.30329	-95.95031
Saint Agnes Catholic Cemetery	47.44765	-95.63637
Saint Anns Cemetery	47.18736	-95.93394
Saint Joseph's Catholic Cemetery	47.335	-95.80433
Saint Joseph's Cemetery	47.30827	-95.79429
Saint Michaels Cemetery	47.29721	-95.96992
Samuel Memorial Cemetery	47.26328	-95.63218
Waubun Cemetery	47.16657	-95.93398
Waubun Cemetery	47.17971	-95.93888

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

Historical markers

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