Waseca County, Minnesota

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Location: Waseca County, Minnesota
Surnames/tags: Waseca_County_Minnesota US_HISTORY

Contents 1 Waseca County, Minnesota 2 Maps and Boundaries 3 Communities 3.1 Cities 3.2 Townships 4 Records and Resources 5 Sources

Waseca County, Minnesota

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Dakota Indians inhabited the land of Waseca County before the first white settlers located here. The Asa and Eliza Sutlief family filed the first claim in the county in Wilton Township in 1854. By the time the county was organized in 1857, most of the areas in the county were established. Waseca is a Dakota word meaning rich, especially in provisions. In Dakota writing and books the word waseca is spelled as we spell the name and is used to mean fertile. The name Waseca was first applied to the earliest farming settlement in 1855 near the present city of Waseca.^[1]

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Maps and Boundaries

• Rice County (northeast)
• Steele County (east)
• Freeborn County (southeast)
• Faribault County (southwest)
• Blue Earth County (west)
• Le Sueur County (northwest)

Communities

Cities

Elysian (partly in Le Sueur County)

Janesville

New Richland

Waldorf

Waseca (county seat)

Townships

Alton Township

Blooming Grove Township

Byron Township

Freedom Township

Iosco Township

Janesville Township

New Richland Township

Otisco Township

St. Mary Township

Vivian Township

Wilton Township

Woodville Township

Records and Resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waseca_County,_Minnesota
• https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Waseca_County,_Minnesota_Genealogy
• http://genealogytrails.com/minn/waseca/
• https://sites.rootsweb.com/~mnwaseca/index.htm
• https://archive.org/details/cu31924028913114/page/n7

Sources

1. ↑ Discover Waseca. Accessed October 08, 2018. http://discoverwaseca.com/visitors/what-to-do/historic-waseca/.