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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

One size does not fit all when it comes to Minnesota’s diverse geography and geology, among other things. We’ve sent that message in this space numerous times on land issues and we say ...

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

The data by Geowealth US also says that the richest and poorest Minnesota communities are all concentrated in the Twin Cities ...

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 ...

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 ...

Americans in more than a dozen northern U.S. states may be able to catch a glimpse of the northern lights Sunday evening, as ...