SECRETARY OF STATE:

An Inventory of Its Maps at the Minnesota Historical Society

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Creator: Minnesota. Secretary of State.
Title:Maps.
Dates:[185-]-1920 (bulk 1881-1916).
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:U.S. government and military road survey maps (1850s), maps of proposed railroad construction, and miscellaneous maps filed with the secretary of state. Numbered from 1 to 253, although file is incomplete. Missing nos. 15, 33, 34, 36, 37, 42, 48, 72, 77, 126, 181, 215-249.
Quantity:4.5 cubic feet
Location: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

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Note to Researchers: The file numbers included on most of the maps listed below correspond to the file numbers in Index to railroad records and steamboats (cataloged separately).


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The maps are listed in Index to railroad records and steamboats (listed with the series of Railroad records under Secretary of State). Map nos 1-151 are also listed in the Index (1858-1903) to Official letters, communications, and railroad liens.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Secretary of State. Maps. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 977-36

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 990017035010104294


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Location
111.G.10.3B11. Duluth and Iron Range, 1883. 3 envelopes.
Location
108.E.12.212. Part of Block 31, St. Paul proper, conveyed to City of St. Paul to [by?] United States.
Filed June 5, 1883.
13. Post office site selected by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States at Minneapolis.
Filed June 22, 1883.
Location
111.G.10.3B14. Diagram showing part of Bazil’s Addition to St. Paul, [undated, possibly 1850s-1860s].
Location
106.J.4.1216. Duluth and Iron Range Railroad. Revised and corrected line [of location], 1884. 3 parts.
Filed July 15, 1884. Shelved with State Land Office maps, with which it was found.
Location
108.E.12.217. Town of Minneapolis, Block 64, showing site of U.S. Post Office building.
Filed April 8, 1885.
18. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway line from Elk River via Princeton to junction with St. Cloud and Hinckley line.
Filed March 8, 1886.
19. Minneapolis, Lyndale and Minnetonka Railroad from Excelsior to Hutchinson.
20. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Company line from Willmar to St. Cloud.
Filed April 29, 1886.
21. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway from Glencoe to Hutchinson, McLeod County, Minn.
Filed May 6, 1886.
22. Proposed Minnehaha State Park, surveyed September 1885 by George W. Cooley.
23. Minneapolis, Lyndale and Minnetonka from Minnehaha Creek to Cedar Lake.
24. Block 20 of the City of Winona.
Filed July 17, 1886.
25. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Co. branch line from Evansville west to state boundary.
Filed August 17, 1886.
26. Minneapolis, Lyndale and Minnetonka Railway Company.
Filed August 20, 1886.
27. Location of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway branch line from Benson west to state line.
Filed September 18, 1886.
28. Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railroad in the City of Winona.
Filed October 30, 1886.
29. Duluth Short Line Railroad Company in the City of St. Paul.
Filed January 5, 1887.
Location
106.J.4.1230. Duluth and Iron Range Railroad. Constructed line, 1887. 4 parts.
Filed March 29, 1887. Shelved with State Land Office maps, with which it was found.
Location
108.E.12.231. Land conveyed by Lakeside Land Company to the United States [Fish Hatchery], Duluth.
Filed April 15, 1887.
Location
111.G.10.3B32. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: West Minneapolis to Lake Minnetonka, 1887.
35. St. Paul, Brainerd and Northwestern Railroad: Milaca to center of Red River, Minnesota, via Brainerd and Carman, 1888.
Location
108.E.12.238. Duluth and Winnipeg over the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation.
Filed January 3, 1889.
39. Duluth, St. Cloud, Mankato and Southern Railroad.
Filed January 19, 1889.
40. Eastern Railway of Minnesota, located line of the Kettle River branch in Pine County.
Filed June 5, 1889.
41. Duluth and Manitoba Railroad.
Filed December 14, 1885.
43. Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad location in counties of St. Louis, Aitkin, and Itasca.
Filed April 28, 1890.
Location
111.G.10.3B44. Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad in Itasca County, 1890.
[45]. Duluth, Missabe and Northern, 1892.
46. Duluth, Missabe and Northern, 1892.
47. Duluth and Iron Range: Cincinnati, Merit and East Canton (Western Mesaba Branch), 1892.
49. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Missabe Mountain Branch, 1892.
50. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Biwabik and Cincinnati spurs, 1892.
51. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Missabe Mountain Branch, 1892.
52. Duluth and Iron Range: Western Mesaba Branch, 1892.
53. Duluth and Iron Range: Continuation of the main line from Ely eastward, and Zenith and Chandler branches, 1892.
54. Duluth and Iron Range: Western Mesaba Branch, 1892.
55. Duluth and Iron Range: Western Mesaba Branch, 1892. 2 envelopes.
56. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Missabe Mountain Branch, 1893.
57. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Berringer and Cincinnati Spur No. 2, 1893.
58. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Extension of main line from Artichoke Creek to shore of the St. Louis River, 1893.
59. Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: Mine Branch No. 1, 1893.
60. Duluth and Iron Range: Mesaba Branch, 1893.
61. Duluth and Iron Range: Western Mesaba Branch, 1893.
62. Duluth and Iron Range: Mesaba Short Line Branch, 1893. 2 envelopes.
Location
111.G.10.4F62. Duluth and Iron Range: Mesaba Short Line Branch, 1893. 1 envelope.
63. Duluth and Iron Range: Western Mesaba Branch, 1893.
64. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Superior Branch, 1893.
65. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Superior Branch extension, 1894.
66. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: McKinley Branch, 1894.
67. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Adams Branch, 1894.
68. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: St. Clair, McInnis and Helmer Spurs, 1894.
69. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Rathbun Spur, 1894.
[70]. Minnesota Canal Company, 1894.
71. Minnesota Canal Company, 1894.
73. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Superior Branch, 1894.
74. Minnesota Canal Company, 1894.
75. Minnesota Canal Company, 1894.
75½. Duluth and Iron Range: Auburn Branch extension, 1895.
76. Minnesota Canal Company, 1895.
76[?]. Duluth and Iron Range: Fall Lake Branch, 1895.
[May belong with No. 75½, filed on the same date].
78[?]. Duluth and Iron Range: Auburn Branch, 1895.
[May belong with No. 75½, filed on the same date].
78½. Duluth and Iron Range: Stewart River Branch, Cloquet Station, 1895.
79. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway: Change of line through Mankato, 1895.
80. Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: Sellers Branch, 1896.
81. Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: Mine Branch, 1896.
82. Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: Spur No. 1, Carson Lake Branch, 1896.
83. Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: Mahoning Branch, 1896.
84. Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: Carson Lake Branch, 1895.
85. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Superior Branch extension, 1895.
86. Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: Missabe Chief Branch, 1895.
87. Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: Longyear Branch, 1895.
88. Duluth and Iron Range: Genoa Spur of the Auburn Branch of the Western Mesaba Branch, 1896.
89. Duluth and Iron Range: Stewart River Branch, 1896.
90. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway: Proposed extension from Halstad to Carman, 1896.
91. Duluth and Iron Range: McKinley Spur of the extension of the Western Mesabe Branch, 1897.
92. Duluth and Iron Range: Sparta Mine Spur, and Fayal-Auburn Wye, 1897.
Location
111.G.10.5B93. Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: Mine Branch extension, 1897.
94. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Pillsbury Spur, 1897.
95-106. Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota: Line from Fosston to a point in Douglas County, Wisconsin, passing through the White Earth Indian Reservation, 1897.
12 maps, not individually listed.
107. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway: Park Rapids extension, 1898.
108. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Re-survey of main line, 1898.
109. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Biwabik Branch, 1898.
110. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Rathbun Spur No. 2, 1898.
111. Minnesota and Iowa Railway: From northern line of state of Iowa to connection with the Chicago and Northwestern Railway at Burt, Iowa, 1898.
112. Minnesota and Iowa Railway: From northern terminus through Redwood County, Minnesota, 1899.
113. Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railroad: Extension and branch line through Faribault, 1899.
114. Iowa, Minnesota and Northwestern Railway: Iowa state line to Blue Earth City, 1899.
115. Iowa, Minnesota and Northwestern Railway: From Blue Earth City westerly to a connection with the Minnesota and Iowa Railway in Martin County, Minnesota, 1899.
116. Minnesota and South Dakota Railway: From eastern line of South Dakota to a point in Duell County, S.D., 1899.
117. Winona and Western Railway: Branch line from Simpson, Olmsted County, to Rochester, 1899.
118. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Biwabik Branch relocation, 1899.
119. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Spruce Mine Spur, 1899.
120. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Approach to Ore Dock No. 3, 1900.
121. Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway: Extension from Germania, Iowa, to Albert Lea, Minnesota, 1900.
[122]. Duluth and Iron Range: Fay Mine Spur, 1900.
123. Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and Northern Railway: Worthington to Hardwick, 1900.
124. Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota: Stony Brook to junction with the Swan River Logging Company Road, 1900.
125. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: St. Louis River Spur, 1900.
127. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway: Spring Park to St. Bonifacius, 1900.
128. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: East Missabe Branch, 1900.
Location
111.G.10.6F129. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway: West St. Paul Levee Line, 1901.
130. Duluth and Iron Range: Fayal Spur, 1901.
131. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Farmington, Mankato Branch, 1901.
132. Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway: Faribault to Newport, 1901.
133. Duluth and Iron Range: Branch to Nolan’s Saw Mill, [1901?].
134. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Glen Mine Spur, 1902.
135. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Oliver St. Clair Spur, 1902.
136. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Farmington, Mankato Branch, 1902.
137. Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railway: Branch from Zumbrota to Rochester, 1902.
138. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Zumbrota to Faribault, 1902.
139. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Troy Branch, 1902.
140. Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway: Change of line between Newport and Langdon, 1902.
141. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Wabasha Division, 1902.
142. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Superior Branch, 1902.
143. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Isinours to Preston, 1902.
144. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Chisholm Spur, 1903.
145. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Morris Spur.
146. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway: Branch from McIntosh to Pelican Rapids, 1903.
147. Minnesota and International Railway: Bullhead Lake Logging Spur, 1903.
148. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Buffalo Spur, 1903.
149. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Iroquois Spur, 1903.
150. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Higgins Spur, 1904.
151. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Niles Spur, 1904.
152. Minnesota and Great Northern Railway: Thief River Falls extension, 1904.
153. Minneapolis, Red Lake and Manitoba Railway: From Bemidji to constructed line, 1905.
154. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Shaw Cut-off, 1905.
155. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Alborn Branch, 1905.
156. Northern Pacific Railway: Changes in main line in Becker and Clay counties, 1906.
157. Northern Pacific Railway: Branch line – Little Falls, 1906.
158. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Wacotah Spur, 1907.
159. Duluth-Thunder Bay Railway: Alterations of right-of-way, Duluth, 1907.
160. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway: Duluth line, 1907.
161. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Company: Minneapolis to Northfield and proposed route, Northfield to Owatonna, 1908.
162. Duluth and Northeastern Railroad: Extension from Cloquet to Duluth, 1908.
162½. Spirit Lake Transfer Railway: Main Line, Adolph Wye, and Steel Plant Spur, 1908.
163. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Hastings, Red Wing, [1908?].
164. Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota: Branch line to Shaft No. 2 of the Webb Mine, 1902.
165. Duluth and Northeastern Railroad: Brevator Branch, 1908.
166. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Hill Mine Spur, 1908.
167. Duluth Terminal Railway, 1909.
168. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Company: Dodge Center to Olmsted County, 1908.
169. Great Northern Railway: Nashwauk extension, 1909.
170. Battlefield and Camp at Wood Lake, Yellow Medicine County.
Filed 1909.
Location
111.G.10.7B171. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Alborn Branch extension west from Coleraine, 1909.
172. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Silver Mine Spur, 1909.
173. Duluth-Thunder Bay Railway: Extension of line in Duluth, 1909.
174. Duluth-Thunder Bay Railway: Wisconsin Central Railway Terminal in city of Duluth, 1909.
175. Great Northern Railway: Seville Mine Spur, 1909.
176. Cuyuna Iron Range Railway: Main line, 1909.
177. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway, 1909.
[178]. Duluth and Iron Range: McKinley and Mile Post 6, 1909.
179. Duluth and Iron Range: Western Mesaba Branch, 1909.
180. Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway: Located line through West Duluth, 1910.
182. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Woodbridge Mine Spur, 1910.
183. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Alteration of part of River Division between Wabasha and Richmond, 1910.
184. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Hull Rust Short Line, 1910.
185. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Helmer and Whiteside Mine Spur, 1910.
186. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Hastings and Dakota Division, 1910.
187. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Alteration of the route of the Hastings and Dakota Division, 1910.
188. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Helmer and Whiteside Mine Spur, 1910.
189. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Woodbridge Mine Spur, 1910.
190. Northern Pacific Railway: Change in main line in Benton County, 1910.
191. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Biwabik Branch, 1910.
192. Wisconsin Central Railway: Change in main line, North St. Paul to New Richmond, 1910.
193. Duluth, Missabe and Northern: Hull Rust Short Line, 1910.
194. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway: Extension of Frederic Branch from Frederic to connection with Brooten line in Douglas County, Wisconsin, 1911.
195. Great Northern Railway: Monroe Mine Spur, 1912.
196. Duluth and Northern Minnesota Railway: Proposed branch from near Mile Post 32 northwesterly, 1912.
197. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway: Proposed branch from near Lawler to Duluth, 1912.
198. Duluth and Northern Minnesota Railway: Revised location, 1913.
199. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway: Iron Mountain Mine Branch, 1913.
200. Minnesota and International Railway: Proposed line from Leaks to connection with Northern Pacific main line at West Brainerd, 1913.
201. Northern Pacific Railway: Northtown Junction line, 1913.
[202]. Duluth and Iron Range: Main line extension from Fall Lake Junction to Fall Lake, 1913.
203. Duluth and Iron Range: Branch to Burnt Side Lake, 1913.
204. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway: Extension of Crosby Spur, 1914.
205. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway: Branch line from Iron Mountain Mine Spur, 1914.
206. Northern Pacific Railway: Red River and Winnipeg Branch, 1914.
207. Northern Pacific Railway: Lake Superior Division – Cuyuna Northern Branch: Trackage to serve Crosby Shaft of Merrimac Mining Company, 1915.
208. Spirit Lake Transfer Railway, 1915.
[209]. Electric Short Line Railway: Winsted, Silver Lake, Hutchinson, 1915. 2 envelopes.
[210]. Electric Short Line Railway: Through Hutchinson.
Location
111.G.10.8F211[?]. Duluth-Thunder Bay Railway: Right-of-way, Duluth.
211. Electric Short Line Railway: Extension of main line to Thorpe, Minnesota, 1916.
212. Electric Short Line Railway: Clara City to Lake Lillian, 1916.
213. Electric Short Line Railway: Clara City to Dawson, 1916.
214. Duluth and Northern Minnesota Railway: Extension of main line, 1916.
250. Duluth and Iron Range: Eastern Mesaba Branch, 1921.
251. Great Northern Terminal Railway: Alterations in route, Mississippi Street to East 8th Street [St. Paul], 1924.
252. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Proposed second track, Prescott to Hastings, 1927.
253. Minneapolis, Anoka and Cuyuna Range Railway: Property, lines and connections, city of Anoka, 1930.
Miscellaneous maps (not part of numbered series):
Plat of Fort Ridgely, 1895.
Location
108.E.12.3Map of Minnesota published for Legislative Manual, 1887.
Map of Minnesota published for Legislative Manual, 1887.
Plat showing site of U.S. Customs House, St. Paul, 1867.
Location
+Reserve 22U.S. Government Road Surveys:
Some of these are probably represented by the first several entries in the recorded list of maps in the Index to Railroad Records and Steamboats. An “Index to Maps on File” maintained by the State Land Office also includes some maps of military roads: some of the maps listed below may originally have been filed there.
Fort Ripley via Crow Wing River to the main road leading to the Red River of the North, July-October 1857. 1 item, rolled and boxed.
Made by George H. Beldon under direction of Captain George Thom.
Fort Ripley via Crow Wing River to the main road leading to the Red River of the North, July-October 1857. Digital version
Location
108.E.12.3Index map to the maps of U.S. military roads in Minnesota deposited in the Office of the Secretary of State (filed April 25, 1859).
Point Douglas to Fort Ripley, 1851.
Point Douglas to Fort Ripley, from 1857 survey (in 3 parts):
1. Point Douglas to Anoka.
2. Anoka to Sauk Rapids.
3. Sauk Rapids to Fort Ripley.
Extract from map of road from Point Douglas to Fort Ripley.
Point Douglas to the mouth of the St. Louis River, 1857 (in 6 parts):
1. Point Douglas to Taylors Falls.
2. Taylors Falls to Sunrise.
3. Sunrise to Kettle River.
4. Kettle River to Willow River.
5. Willow River to 146th Mile.
6. 146th Mile to Superior.
Mendota to the mouth of the Big Sioux River, 1857 (in 3 parts), surveyed by C.N. Thom, Assistant Engineer:
1. Mendota to Shieldsville.
2. Shieldsville to Kasota.
3. Kasota to [Big Sioux River].
Mouth of Big Sioux River to Mendota, 1853, by Captain J[esse] L. Reno and James Tilton, Civil Engineer.
Mendota to Wabasha as located by J. Knauer under the direction of Lieut. J. H. Simpson, U.S.A., 1852.
Lake Pepin to Minnesota River at Mankota [Mankato?], [1853?]. 2 items.

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Other railroad maps are listed under State Land Office. For the reports and certifications of completion that accompanied these maps, see Official letters, communications and railroad liens. See also Governor: Executive journals, and various land and railroad files.

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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:
Railroads -- Minnesota -- Maps.
Roads -- Minnesota -- Maps.
Document Types:
Maps -- Minnesota.

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