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Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States

Details for Big Stone County

Name

Big Stone County

Place Type

County

Located in

Minnesota, United States

County Seat

Ortonville (Ortonville Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		45.3999643		45° 23' 59.9" N
Longitude		-96.4503362		96° 27' 01.2" W

Population

6,285

Elevation

350 m

Surrounding Counties

Traverse N
Stevens NE
Swift E
Chippewa SE
Lac qui Parle SE
Grant (South Dakota) SW
Roberts (South Dakota) W

USGS GNIS FeatureID

659451

Histopolis Place ID

879380874

Updated May 25, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Big Stone County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Cemeteries in or near Big Stone County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=20858&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Nov 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Minnesota > Big Stone County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Minnesota > Big Stone County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MN/Big_Stone/ (12 Jun 2010)

Cemetery Registration-Big Stone County,Minnesota [USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project]
http://www.usgwtombstones.org/minnesota/bigstone.htm (17 Oct 2009)

USGenWeb, Big Stone County, Minnesota, USA [rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnbigsto]
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnbigsto/index.html (9 Apr 2006)

Big Stone County, Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stone_County,_Minnesota (28 Jul 2010)

Big Stone County, Minnesota MN, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Big Stone County, Minnesota MN, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20858 (15 Nov 2008)

Big Stone County Minnesota Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Big Stone County, Minnesota
http://www.interment.net/us/mn/bigstone.htm (16 May 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1315 (12 Sep 2009)

Big Stone County, MN [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/bigstone/bigstone.html (30 Jan 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Big Stone County, Minn. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/BS.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 13 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Big Stone County. You can navigate to any of the 13 survey townships that overlap Big Stone County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships and Cities of Big Stone County

14 Townships, 5 Cities (Township is assumed unless noted)

Akron	Almond	Artichoke	Barry (city)
Big Stone	Browns Valley	Clinton (city)	Correll (city)
Foster	Graceville	Graceville (city)	Malta
Moonshine	Odessa	Odessa (city)	Ortonville
Otrey	Prior	Toqua

Cities of Big Stone County

8 Cities, 9 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Artichoke	Barry (city)	Beardsley (city)	Big Stone Colony
Bonanza Grove	Cashtown	Clinton (city)	Correll (city)
Foster	Graceville (city)	Hilltop Manor Mobile Home Park	Hilltop Manor Mobile Home Park
Johnson (city)	Lagoona Beach	Odessa (city)	Ortonville (city)
Yankeetown

Cemeteries of Big Stone County

27 Cemeteries, 3 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Akron	Artichoke Baptist	Artichoke Lake	Bailey
Beardsley	Big Stone Baptist	Big Stone Hutterite Colony	Clinton
Eids	Eidskog	Elim	Graceville
Holden	Johnson Family	Lakeside (Foster Township)	Lakeside (Prior Township)
Long Island	Maple	Midway	Mills
Mound	Odessa Immanuel Lutheran	Odessa Trinity Lutheran	Rest
Saint Mary	Saint Pauli	St. Mary (*)	St. Pauli (*)
West Saint Paul	West St. Paul (*)

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