RURAL CREDIT DEPARTMENT
An Inventory of Its County Plats at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota. Department of Rural Credit. | |
| Title: | County plats. | |
| Dates: | [1920s-1930s]. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | One or more plats for each county, showing township divisions, cities, roads, railroads, schools, churches, cemeteries, and creameries; each accompanied by a chart (on the same sheet) giving township names, partial releases of lands, and sometimes loan data. Also present are boundary maps for rural credit districts 3-5 and 7-8. | |
| Quantity: | 5.0 cubic feet (5 boxes, 1 partial box, 11 folders in double oversize box, and 1 microfilm reel). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
There are five sets of county plats: linen originals; blueline copies with selected parcels of land colored in red and green; a second set of blueline copies pasted onto file folders, containing variant annotations and often accompanied by other county maps; a microfilmed set of plats for 74 counties, also with variant annotations; and maps depicting granted mortgages. Some of the blueline copies are in very poor condition.
ARRANGEMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Department of Rural Credit. County Plats. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Location of Originals:
Location or disposition of the originals of the microfilmed plats is unknown.
Accession Information:
Accession number(s): None; 989-128; 2001-50; 2008-29
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 001703926
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 126.F.4.1 | County plats (linens). 6 oversize folders. | ||||||||||
| A few counties may be missing. Some maps are not linens. Most are dated 1934-1937, with updates to 1939. | |||||||||||
| County plats (blueline copies). 5 oversize folders. | |||||||||||
| Selected parcels of land colored in red and green. There is no key to the meaning of the colors. Revision dates are noted at the bottom of the sheet. Some copies are in very poor condition. | |||||||||||
| 115.I.18.1B | Map showing district offices and supervisors, undated. 1 item in folder. | ||||||||||
| District office maps, 1930s. 5 folders. | |||||||||||
| Map for each district office depicting district boundaries. | |||||||||||
| No. 3, Fertile. | |||||||||||
| No. 4, Detroit Lakes. | |||||||||||
| No. 5, Brainerd. | |||||||||||
| No. 7, Benson. | |||||||||||
| No. 8, St. Paul. | |||||||||||
| County plats, 1930s. 1 box and 1 partial box. | |||||||||||
| Plat for each county (or parts thereof) showing township divisions, cities, roads, schools, churches and creameries. Plats have been marked with colors to depict real estate (pink), paid loan (green), loan (white), and in foreclosure (blue). The plats are glued in a folder or folders per county. Several are accompanied by other county maps. | |||||||||||
| Linens. 1 folder. | |||||||||||
| Aitkin, Benton, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Kanabec, Lincoln, Lyon, Mille Lacs, Todd, Wadena. | |||||||||||
| Aitkin-Traverse. | |||||||||||
| 115.I.18.2F | Wabasha-Yellow Medicine. 1 folder. | ||||||||||
| 102.I.4.4F-1 | County plat maps, circa 1920s-1930s. | ||||||||||
| Maps depicting where mortgages were granted. | |||||||||||
| Aitkin-Faribault. | |||||||||||
| Cook County maps are missing. | |||||||||||
| 102.I.4.4F-2 | Fillmore-Mahnomen. | ||||||||||
| 102.I.4.5B-1 | Marshall-Ramsey. | ||||||||||
| 102.I.4.5B-2 | Red Lake-Yellow Medicine. | ||||||||||
| SAM 386 | Microfilm of county plats, 1930s. 1 microfilm reel. | ||||||||||
| One or more plats for each of 74 counties showing township divisions, cities, roads, railroads, schools, churches, cemeteries, and creameries; each accompanied by a chart (on the same sheet) giving township name, partial releases of land, and sometimes loan data for lands involved in the Rural Credit Department loan program. The plats appear in alphabetical order on the microfilm (except that Todd and Traverse counties are out of order. Revision dates are noted at the bottom of each plat. | |||||||||||
| The following counties are not represented on the film: Blue Earth, Carlton, Chisago, Cook, Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Pine, Ramsey, Rice, Scott, Wabasha, and Washington. | |||||||||||
| The microfilmed plats are not exact duplicates of the linen and blueline plats, and may contain subtle differences. The following list is coded to show which counties have paper maps with fewer revisions [FR], more recent revisions [MR], or no noticeable differences between the paper and microfilm versions [NC]. | |||||||||||
| Aitkin - FR. | |||||||||||
| Anoka - MR. | |||||||||||
| Becker - FR. | |||||||||||
| Beltrami (north half) - NC. | |||||||||||
| Beltrami (south half) - NC. | |||||||||||
| Benton - NC. | |||||||||||
| Big Stone - NC. | |||||||||||
| Brown - MR. | |||||||||||
| Carver - MR. | |||||||||||
| Cass (north half) - FR. | |||||||||||
| Cass (south half) - FR. | |||||||||||
| Chippewa - NC. | |||||||||||
| Clay - FR and “partial releases” not shown. | |||||||||||
| Clearwater - MR. | |||||||||||
| Cottonwood - MR. | |||||||||||
| Crow Wing - MR. | |||||||||||
| Dodge - MR. | |||||||||||
| Douglas - NC. | |||||||||||
| Faribault - MR. | |||||||||||
| Fillmore - MR. | |||||||||||
| Freeborn - MR. | |||||||||||
| Grant - NC. | |||||||||||
| Hennepin - MR. | |||||||||||
| Houston (2 maps) - MR. | |||||||||||
| Hubbard - MR. | |||||||||||
| Isanti – NC. | |||||||||||
| Itasca (east half) - FR. | |||||||||||
| Itasca (west half) - FR. | |||||||||||
| Jackson - MR. | |||||||||||
| Kanabec - FR. | |||||||||||
| Kandiyohi - NC. | |||||||||||
| Kittson - NC. | |||||||||||
| Koochiching (east half) - NC. | |||||||||||
| Koochiching (west half) - NC. | |||||||||||
| Lac Qui Parle - NC. | |||||||||||
| Lake (north half) - FR. | |||||||||||
| Lake (south half) - FR. | |||||||||||
| Lake of the Woods (north half) - NC. | |||||||||||
| Lake of the Woods (south half) - NC. | |||||||||||
| Lincoln - NC. | |||||||||||
| Lyon - NC. | |||||||||||
| McLeod - MR. | |||||||||||
| Mahnomen - MR. | |||||||||||
| Marshall (west half) - NC. | |||||||||||
| Marshall (east half) - NC. | |||||||||||
| Martin - MR. | |||||||||||
| Meeker - NC. | |||||||||||
| Mille Lacs - NC. | |||||||||||
| Morrison (east half) - FR. | |||||||||||
| Morrison (west half) - FR. | |||||||||||
| Mower - MR. | |||||||||||
| Murray - NC. | |||||||||||
| Nicollet - NC. | |||||||||||
| Nobles - NC. | |||||||||||
| Norman - MR. | |||||||||||
| Olmsted - MR. | |||||||||||
| Otter Tail (south half) - FR and lacking township information. | |||||||||||
| Otter Tail (north half) - FR and lacking township information. | |||||||||||
| Pennington - NC. | |||||||||||
| Pipestone - NC. | |||||||||||
| Polk (east half) - MR. | |||||||||||
| Polk (west half) - MR. | |||||||||||
| Pope - NC. | |||||||||||
| Red Lake - NC. | |||||||||||
| Redwood - NC. | |||||||||||
| Renville - NC. | |||||||||||
| Rock - NC. | |||||||||||
| Roseau - NC. | |||||||||||
| Todd – NC. | |||||||||||
| Traverse - NC. | |||||||||||
| Saint Louis (5 maps from south to north) - FR. | |||||||||||
| Sherburne - MR. | |||||||||||
| Sibley - MR. | |||||||||||
| Stearns - NC. | |||||||||||
| Steele - MR. | |||||||||||
| Stevens - NC. | |||||||||||
| Swift - NC. | |||||||||||
| Wadena - NC. | |||||||||||
| Waseca - MR. | |||||||||||
| Watonwan - MR. | |||||||||||
| Wilkin - NC. | |||||||||||
| Winona - MR. | |||||||||||
| Wright - MR. | |||||||||||
| Yellow Medicine - NC. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Agricultural credit -- Minnesota.
- Cemeteries -- Minnesota.
- Church buildings -- Minnesota
- Cities and towns -- Minnesota.
- Creameries -- Minnesota.
- Mortgages -- Minnesota.
- Roads -- Minnesota.
- Schools -- Minnesota.
- Document Types:
- Maps -- Minnesota.
- Microforms.
- Functions:
- Mapping.
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