Childs, Minnesota

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Coordinates: 46°03′56″N96°32′04″W / 46.06556°N 96.53444°W / 46.06556; -96.53444 Coordinates: 46°03′56″N96°32′04″W / 46.06556°N 96.53444°W / 46.06556; -96.53444
Country United States
State Minnesota
County Wilkin
Elevation
971 ft (296 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 218
GNIS feature ID654642 [1]

Childs is an unincorporated community in Wilkin County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1]

Wilkin County, Minnesota County in the United States

Wilkin County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population of Wilkin County was 6,576. Its county seat is Breckenridge. The county is named for Colonel Alexander Wilkin, a lawyer who served as Minnesota’s U.S. marshal and was later killed in the Civil War.

U.S. state constituent political entity of the United States

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory and shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders. Four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

Minnesota State of the United States of America

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, and northern regions of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan the "Land of 10,000 Lakes". Its official motto is L'Étoile du Nord.

History

The town of Childs was named for a local farmer, Job W. Childs, who later moved to California. [2] The town had a post office from 1888 until 1920, [3] and a station of the Great Northern Railway which was abandoned in 1956.

Great Northern Railway (U.S.) defunct American Class I railway company (1889–1970)

The Great Northern Railway was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J. Hill and was developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad. The Great Northern's (GN) route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the U.S.

Notes

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Childs, Minnesota
  2. ↑ Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 578.
  3. ↑ "Wilkin County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2015.


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