Welcome to Itasca County, Minnesota Genealogy and History A Part of the Genealogy Trails Group   Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy 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 County Site is Available for Adoption! WANT TO HELP? We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be successful. If you are interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim Check your attics! Dust off your family scrapbooks! We're looking for DATA for this site!!! If you are interested in adding your families' information this website, EMAIL US. We'll be happy to help your families' obituaries, news items and other historical data find a home here at Minnesota Genealogy Trails, where it will remain free for all to view. 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 Named after Lake Itasca The county (originally much larger) was first formed October 27, 1849, upon the creation of Minnesota Territory, from the Minnesota portion of La Pointe County, Wisconsin. The county is the third largest in the state County Seat Grand Rapids Portions of the Bois Forte and Leech Lake Indian reservations are in the county Townships Cities Alvwood Township Arbo Township Ardenhurst Township Balsam Township Bearville Township Bigfork Township Blackberry Township Bowstring Township Carpenter Township Deer River Township Feeley Township Good Hope Township Goodland Township Grand Rapids Township Grattan Township Greenway Township Harris Township Iron Range Township Kinghurst Township Lake Jessie Township Lawrence Township Liberty Township Lone Pine Township Marcell Township Max Township Moose Park Township Morse Township Nashwauk Township Nore Township Oteneagen Township Pomroy Township Sago Township Sand Lake Township Spang Township Splithand Township Stokes Township Third River Township Trout Lake Township Wabana Township Wawina Township Wildwood Township Wirt Township Bigfork Bovey Calumet Cohasset Coleraine Deer River Effie Grand Rapids Keewatin La Prairie Marble Nashwauk Squaw Lake Taconite Warba Zemple Unorganized Bowstring Lake Bowstring Northeast Itasca Deer Lake Little Sand Lake  Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census 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: Mar. 2013: Bio: Dodson August 2012: Obit: Tuller July 2012: Obits: Jergenson, Kruger, Maddy June 2012: Obits: Delich, Dodge, Erickson, Esterson, Ferrier, Johnson May 2012: Bio: Barzen, Bates Apr. 2012: Bios: Gilbert, Kiley Mar. 2012: Obits: Putman, Shook; Marriages: Anderson-Carlson, Oestreich-Hawn Feb. 2012 1850 Census; obits for Black, Harkala, Lonsford, Whaling; Bios: Bolter, Dumas, Humphrey Jan 2012: Birth Records, C Surnames 1905-1908; Cemeteries; Gossip News Dec 2011: 1910 Marriage Licenses; 1860 and 1870 Federal Census - fully transcribed; Korean War Casualties; County Naming of townships and rivers history; death certificate data for Clasen, Katzenmaier SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails 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 Koochiching County (north) St. Louis County (east) Aitkin County (south) Cass County (southwest) Beltrami County (west) 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.