Wadena County, Minnesota
| Wadena County, Minnesota | |
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 Location in the U.S. state of Minnesota |
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 Minnesota's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | June 11, 1858 (created) 1873 (organized) |
| Named for | An old trading post and common Ojibwe name |
| Seat | Wadena |
| Largest city | Wadena |
| Area | |
| • Total | 543 sq mi (1,406 km2) |
| • Land | 536 sq mi (1,388 km2) |
| • Water | 7.0 sq mi (18 km2), 1.3% |
| Population (est.) | |
| • (2015) | 13,875 |
| • Density | 26/sq mi (10/km²) |
| Congressional district | 8th |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | www |
Wadena County (/wəˈdiːnə/ wə-DEEN-ə) is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,843. Its county seat is Wadena. The county was formed in 1858 and organized in 1873.
Wadena County was organized on February 21, 1873, at which time Wadena was chosen as the county seat.
Wadena county is composed of fifteen townships, first surveyed in 1863. Each township is 6 miles by 6 miles and contains 36 sections of land (with the exception of Bullard and Thomastown which have a slightly different configuration because their boundaries are aligned with the Leaf and Crow Wing Rivers, respectively). In 1857, a man named Augustus Aspinwall laid out a townsite in what is now Section 15, Thomastown township, at the junction of the Crow Wing and Partridge rivers, and named it Wadena. In 1872, when the railroad went through the area it ran about three miles south of this site and thus the town quickly withered away.
During that period there were five organized townships (Wadena, Aldrich, Thomastown, Leaf River and Wing River) and three county commissioners. The balance of the townships were organized between this time and 1899; the last two, Huntersville and Orton after being organized as one township in 1898, were split in 1899. As of 2010, there are six organized towns in the county: Wadena (the county seat), Verndale, Sebeka, Menahga, Aldrich, and Nimrod.
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