During the last week of March, the McLeod County Commissioners brought key information to constituents on the topics of ...

Did you know McLeod County has its own database and interactive maps based on aerial images that any resident can access from home? Christy Christensen, the county’s geographic information ...

Macy Holtz went looking for a better fit. She found it in Crete, Neb. After one year spent at NCAA Division II and Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference school Minnesota State University Moorhead, ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

From the column: "Duluth is being ruined by the proliferation of subdivisions that are carving the city into piecemeal ...

Four Corners Monument The Four Corners Monument is a unique place in the United States where visitors can stand in four ...

Then, the state of Minnesota sent the request to the Board on Geographic Names, which made it official for ... Names could change the name to Gulf of America on official U.S. maps, but there is no ...

This map by Geowealth US shows the approximate median household income across Minnesota ... Researchers often analyze data at this geographic level in order to see variation within densely ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

Many of these features are simply going one step beyond how many hunters are already using their digital maps.

Merriam was named after John Merriam, a Minnesota legislator who organized the First National Bank and the Merchants’ National Bank of St. Paul, according to “Minnesota Geographic Names ...