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Guide to Steele County Minnesota genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Steele County, Minnesota
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Map of Minnesota highlighting Steele County
Location in the state of Minnesota
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Location of Minnesota in the U.S.
Facts
Founded February 20, 1855
County Seat Owatonna
Courthouse
Address Steele County Courthouse
111 E Main Street
Owatonna, MN 55060
Phone: 507.444.7450
Steele County Website

Contents

County Courthouse


Clerk District Court has birth and death records from 1870,
marriage records from 1855, divorce, probate and court records
from 1858. County Recorder has land records from 1858. [1]

History

Parent County

County seat: Owatonna [2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places[3]

Cities
  • Blooming Prairie
  • Ellendale
  • Medford
  • Owatonna
Townships
  • Aurora
  • Berlin
  • Blooming Prairie
  • Clinton Falls
  • Deerfield
  • Havana
  • Lemond
  • Medford
  • Meriden
  • Merton
  • Owatonna
  • Somerset
  • Summit

Neighboring Counties

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Civil War

Civil War service men from Steele County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies or regiments that were formed from men of Steele County.

- 1st Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Company G.
- 2nd Regiment, Minnesota Cavalry, Company C.
- 3rd Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Company F.
- 10th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Company A.
- 2nd Minnesota Company Sharpshooters, Second Company only.

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

Web Sites

References

  1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Steele County, Minnesota page 368, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
  2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
  3. ↑ Steele County Government Webpage. http://www.co.steele.mn.us/about_steele_county/facts_and_figures.html (accessed November 7, 2011).
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