Welcome to Meeker 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 Founded February 23, 1856 Meeker County was named after Judge Bradley B. Meeker of St. Anthony. He was an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. County government was set up on May 6, 1856 by the County Commissioners at Forest City. The Government Land Office was set up that same season and a post office was established at Forest City. The first industry in the County was a sawmill set up at Forest City in 1856. The massacre at Acton on August 17, 1862 marked the opening of the Indian Wars Seat: Litchfield Largest city: Litchfield Villages * Cedar Mills * Cosmos * Darwin * Dassel * Eden Valley (part) * Grove City * Kingston * Litchfield * Watkins Unincorporated Villages Corvuso, Rosendale, Crow River, Manannah, North Kingston and Forest City Townships * Acton Township * Cedar Mills Township * Collinwood Township * Cosmos Township * Danielson Township * Darwin Township * Dassel Township * Ellsworth Township * Forest City Township * Forest Prairie Township * Greenleaf Township * Harvey Township * Kingston Township * Litchfield Township * Manannah Township * Swede Grove Township * Union Grove Township 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: Obits: Atkinson, Daggett, Eby, Gorton, Herman, Johnson, O'Brien, Peterson Marriages: DeMots - McLaughlin, Hawkinson - Pratt, Hurdenbring - Dougherty Bios: Adams, Akeson, Akesson, Amundson, Anderson, Angell, Armstrong, Atkinson (2), Baden, Barrick, Becker, Beckstrand, Belknap, Benson, Benton, Berg, Berggren, Bissell, Blomberg, Bogar (2), Boring, Boyer, Boynton, Brown (2), Butterfield, Cairncross, Carlson (2), Case, Casey, Caswell, Chapman, Christianson, Clements, Comstock, Connole, Coombs, Cossairt, Cox, Cross, Cutts, Daggett, Damuth, Danielson (3), Dart, Davidson (2), Davis, Dearey, DeCoster, Delaney (2), Dime, Dowling, Duckering, Dunn, Ekbom, Eklund, Elliott, Elmquist, Elofson (3), Esbjornsson, Evenson (3), Falk, Flynn (2), Fosen, Fuller (2), Gardner, Gibney, Gordon, Gorman, Grant, Greenleaf (2), Greenwood, Gunderson, Hallgren, Halvorsen, Hamilton, Hanson (2), Harding, Heard, Hershey, Hill, Hoar (2), Houk, Howard, Hubbard, Hukriede (2), Hull, Hunter, Hurley, Inman, Iverson, Jackman, Jewett, Johns, Johnson (6), Jorden, Jorgenson, Joubert, Kauffman, Keilty, Kennedy, Kimball, Kline, Koerner, Kruger, Larson (2), Lasher, Laughton, Lawson, Lawton, Lee, Leighton, Lenhard, Lenhardt, Lindell, Lindgren (2), Lund, Malmquist, Manguson, March, Martenson, Martin (3), Mattson, Mayer, McCarney, McCue, McIntee, McIntyre, McKarney, Merrill, Miller, Minton, Morris, Mousley, Murphy, Murray, Nelson (7), Ness, Nygren, O'Keefe, Olsen, Palm, Paulson (2), Pennoyer, Peterson (4), Pier, Pitman, Polk, Pratt, Price, Quick, Ralston, Reitan, Remick, Roman, Ross, Rumsey, Ryckman, Salisbury, Sampson (2), Scarp, Schultz, Schwarz, Segar, Shelley, Shepherd (2), Sherman, Shields, Shimin, Smith (2), Snell, Soule, Staples, Strobeck, Sullivan, Sundahl, Sundquist, Swanson (2), Taylor, Teberg, Thoms, Tuner, Viren, Vose,Vossen, Wakefield, Wheeler (3), Youngstrom, Zackrison Jan. 2013: Obit: McGraw; Marriage: Hughes - Sullivan August 2012: Obits: Evenson, Krueger July 2012: Bio: Campbell May 2012: Obit: Johnson; Bios: Almfeldt, Anderson Apr. 2012: Bios: Harris, Koerner, Wright Mar. 2012: Obit: Heaney; Bios: Courtney, Hanson; Marriage: Hanson-Hovey Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; birth for Miller family; Marriage: Linquist & Ellstrom Jan 2012: County History; list of cemeteries SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. 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