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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.

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We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online 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
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All information you find on this site is submitted by people like you and me, searching for their family roots. 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 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.

 


County Information
The county name derives from the Dakota term translated as "where the buffalo fish come"

Kandiyohi County was organized in 1858 with its county seat in Kandiyohi, which was then called Kandiyohi Station, and was just a railroad stop.The original county occupied only the southern half of its current area. Development was slow, however, and in 1870 the state legislature called for Monongalia County to merge with Kandiyohi and make one, larger county. It took until November 21, 1871 to agree on a county seat, and the centrally located Willmar was chosen.


County Seat
Willmar

Government Website

Townships

Cities

Arctander Township
Burbank Township
Colfax Township
Dovre Township
East Lake Lillian Township
Edwards Township
Fahlun Township
Gennessee Township
Green Lake Township
Harrison Township
Holland Township
Irving Township

Kandiyohi Township
Lake Andrew Township
Lake Elizabeth Township
Lake Lillian Township
Mamre Township
New London Township
Norway Lake Township
Roseland Township
Roseville Township
St. Johns Township
Whitefield Township
Willmar Township

Atwater
Blomkest
Kandiyohi
Lake Lillian
New London
Pennock
Prinsburg
Raymond
Regal
Spicer
Sunburg
Willmar

 

 


Online Data

BIRTHS

OBITS

MARRIAGES

CEMETERIES

CENSUS INFO

BIOGRAPHIES

DEATHS

MISC DATA

NEWSPAPER DATA

Website Updates
Aug 2009: Obit for SWANSON
Nov 2008: Fire Wardens, 1895; News Article--Iowans Relocating to Kandiyohi County

Adjacent Counties:
Stearns County (north)
Meeker County (east)
Renville County (south)
Chippewa County (southwest)
Swift County (west and northwest)
Pope County (northwest)

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