Welcome to Becker County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Organized March 18, 1858 County seat: Detroit Lakes The county was named for George Loomis Becker, land commissioner for the railroad For 10 years after the establishment of Becker County there were no white settlers. The Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians occupied nearly all of the county. The Sioux Indians had about one half of Cormorant Township and a small part of the corner of Lake Park Township. A portion of the White Earth Indian Reservation extends into the county Townships: Cities  Atlanta Township Audubon Township Burlington Township Callaway Township Carsonville Township Cormorant Township Cuba Township Detroit Township Eagle View Township Erie Township Evergreen Township Forest Township Green Valley Township Hamden Township Height of Land Township Holmesville Township Lake Eunice Township Lake Park Township Lake View Township  Maple Grove Township Osage Township Pine Point Township Riceville Township Richwood Township Round Lake Township Runeberg Township Savannah Township Shell Lake Township Silver Leaf Township Spring Creek Township Spruce Grove Township Sugar Bush Township Toad Lake Township Two Inlets Township Walworth Township White Earth Township White Earth CDP Wolf Lake Township  Audubon Callaway Detroit Lakes Frazee Lake Park Ogema Pine Point Wolf Lake  Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Records Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: June 2013: 1890 Veterans Schedule for Cuba May 2013: 1890 Veterans Schedule for Audubon Apr. 2013: 1890 Veterans Schedules for Burlington & Carsonville Sept. 2012: Obits: Dix, Lyford, Walton Marriage: Knutson-Kvamme Birth: Fairbanks Local News: White Earth (14 Oct. 1920) June 2012: Obit: Rice May 2012: Bios: Anundsen, Baldwin Mar. 2012: Bios: Converse, Hamilton; Obit: Scott Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; Marriage: Robbecke-Kennedy; Bios: Bjorge, Dahlen, Dufault Dec 2011: Civil War soldiers from Becker Previous Updates June 2011: Biography - Chief May-zhuc-kege-shig Biography Article, Deaths, 1908-1909, 1860 Federal Census, 1870 Mortality Schedule, 1880 Mortality Schedule, Detroit Lakes History, 1871 SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Mahnomen County (north) Clearwater County (northeast) Hubbard County (northeast) Wadena County (southeast) Otter Tail County (south) Clay County (west) Norman County (northeast) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.