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Traverse County, Minnesota

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

5historic places

—earliest paper

1862formed

3,360pop. 2020

18cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1985. Most listings are in or near Browns Valley, Wheaton, Campbell.

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 Traverse titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

5 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Browns Valley Carnegie Public Library	Browns Valley	Building	1985
Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Depot	Wheaton	Building	1985
District No. 44 School	Campbell	Building	2011
Fort Wadsworth Agency and Scout Headquarters Building	Browns Valley	Building	1986
Larson's Hunters Resort	Wheaton	District	1985

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Traverse was formed in 1862 (1862-02-20) from Pierce.

TRAVERSE created from PIERCE (extinct) and Non-County Areas 6 and 7.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Traverse County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
13	1,507	7,573	7,943	8,283	8,053	7,503	5,542	4,134	3,360

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

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

Cemeteries — 18 of 18 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Immanuel Cemetery	45.9204	-96.4277
Lake View Cemetery	45.69714	-96.70936
Monson Cemetery	45.88912	-96.40867
Nelson Cemetery	45.80356	-96.57728
Plateau Cemetery	45.58917	-96.82361
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	46.02176	-96.54615
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	None	None
Saint Galls Cemetery	46.00745	-96.31394
Saint Johns Cemetery	45.80301	-96.45978
Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery	45.71626	-96.4208
Saint Patrick Cemetery	45.64496	-96.40645
Sharon Cemetery	45.90356	-96.37811
Siloah Cemetery	45.64444	-96.56306
Trinity Cemetery	45.60806	-96.2925
Valley View Cemetery	45.587	-96.80354
Wildwood Cemetery	45.81662	-96.48895
Zion Cemetery	45.67218	-96.57507
Zion Cemetery	45.83188	-96.36881

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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