Welcome to this Genealogy Trails website for St. Louis County This County website is Available for Adoption! 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. 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 Volunteer Page for further information about us and then contact Kim. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] 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 are looking for biographies, birth and death records, obituaries, newspaper stories, family history - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. We regret we cannot do personal research for you.   St. Louis County is located in the north-east part of the state, bordering: Rainy River District, Ontario (north) Lake County (east) Lake Superior (southeast) Douglas County, Wisconsin (southeast) Carlton County (south) Aitkin County (southwest) Itasca County (west) Koochiching County (west) The county seat is Duluth. It is the largest county in Minnesota, and the largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River. Major industries include pulpwood production and tourism. At one time, taconite mining was a major part of the economy. Parts of the Bois Forte and Fond du Lac Indian reservations are in the county. St. Louis County was founded on February 20, 1855 as Doty County and had its name changed to Newton County on March 3, 1855. On March 1, 1856, St. Louis County to the east became Lake County while Newton County was renamed St. Louis County. Originally Doty County and Newton County consisted of the area east and south of the St. Louis River. The area east of Vermilion River and north of St. Louis River was part of Superior County (which then became St. Louis County, and then Lake County). Upon establishment of this St. Louis County, these two areas were merged, then expanded westward by incorporating parts of Itasca County, which then also included most of Carlton County. On May 23, 1857 St. Louis County took its current shape when Carlton County was formed from St. Louis and Pine Counties. Townships Alango Township Alborn Township Alden Township Angora Township Arrowhead Township Ault Township Balkan Township Bassett Township Beatty Township Biwabik Township Breitung Township Brevator Township Camp 5 Township Canosia Township Cedar Valley Township Cherry Township Clinton Township Colvin Township Cotton Township Culver Township Duluth Township Eagles Nest Township Ellsburg Township Elmer Township Embarrass Township Fairbanks Township Fayal Township Field Township Fine Lakes Township Floodwood Township Fredenberg Township French Township Gnesen Township Grand Lake Township Great Scott Township Greenwood Township Halden Township Industrial Township Kelsey Township Kugler Township Lakewood Township Lavell Township Leiding Township Linden Grove Township McDavitt Township Meadowlands Township Midway Township Morcom Township Morse Township Ness Township New Independence Township Normanna Township North Star Township Northland Township Owens Township Pequaywan Township Pike Township Portage Township Prairie Lake Township Rice Lake Township Sandy Township Solway Township Stoney Brook Township Sturgeon Township Toivola Township Van Buren Township Vermilion Lake Township Waasa Township White Township Willow Valley Township Wuori Township Unorganized Areas Angleworm Lake Birch Lake Brimson Camp A Lake Crab Lake Dark River Gheen Hay Lake Heikkala Lake Janette Lake Kabetogema Leander Lake Linwood Lake Marion Lake McCormack Mud Hen Lake Nett Lake Northeast St. Louis Northwest St. Louis Picket Lake Potshot Lake Rollins Sand Lake Slim Lake Sturgeon River Sunday Lake Tikander Lake Whiteface Reservoir Cities Aurora Babbitt Biwabik Brookston Buhl Chisholm Cook Duluth Arnold (CDP) Ely Eveleth Floodwood Gilbert Hermantown Hibbing Hoyt Lakes Iron Junction Kinney Leonidas McKinley Meadowlands Mountain Iron Orr Proctor Tower Virginia Winton   Online Data (We need data!!!) BIOGRAPHIES BIRTHS CEMETERIES CENSUS DATA DEATHS HISTORY MARRIAGES MILITARY MISC DATA OBITS   NEWS & GOSSIP Website Updates: Mar 2009: RUTHENBECK obit Jan 2009: WOOLSON biography/obit Nov 2008: Obits for BABICH, BLAKELY, MARTINSON, NELSON & PALMQUIST Fire Wardens, 1895 News Article - MATSON injury Postcard, Mining Scene Bio for CAREY 10 June 2008: DAVIS obit; List of Cemeteries; St. Louis County, MN Geographic Names Links  VISIT GENEALOGY TRAILS  BACK TO THE MAIN MINNESOTA INDEX PAGE You are Visitor Since June 8, 2006   All data on this website is © Copyright 2008 by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.