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Renville County


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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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[A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.]


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
Created 1855

Named for Joseph Renville, son of a French father and Indian mother, who worked as a trader and interpreter

Renville County was the site of several hostile engagements in the Sioux Uprising of 1862.

County Seat
Olivia

Government Website

Townships

Cities

Bandon Township
Beaver Falls Township
Birch Cooley Township
Bird Island Township
Boon Lake Township
Brookfield Township
Cairo Township
Camp Township
Crooks Township
Emmet Township
Ericson Township
Flora Township
Hawk Creek Township
Hector Township

Henryville Township
Kingman Township
Martinsburg Township
Melville Township
Norfolk Township
Osceola Township
Palmyra Township
Preston Lake Township
Sacred Heart Township
Troy Township
Wang Township
Wellington Township
Winfield Township

Bird Island
Buffalo Lake
Danube
Fairfax
Franklin
Hector
Morton
Olivia
Redwood Falls (part)
Renville
Sacred Heart


Online Data

BIRTHS

OBITS

MARRIAGES

CEMETERIES

CENSUS INFO

BIOGRAPHIES

DEATHS

CHURCHES

NEWSPAPER DATA

   

MILITARY DATA

Website Updates
Mar 2009: Misc. News Story for BAKER
Nov 2008: 1860 Federal Census

Adjacent Counties:
Kandiyohi County (north)
Meeker County (northeast)
McLeod County (east)
Sibley County (east,southeast)
Nicollet County (south)
Brown County (southeast}
Redwood County (southwest)
Yellow Medicine County (west)
Chippewa County (northwest)

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