Rice County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 64,142. Its county seat is Faribault.
Dundas is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,367 at the 2010 census. Dundas is sometimes found with its next door neighbor the city Northfield, Minnesota. United States Army Major General Ulysses G. McAlexander was born in Dundas in 1864.
Faribault is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. It is the county seat. The population was 23,352 at the 2010 census. Faribault is approximately 50 miles (80 km) south of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Nerstrand is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 294 at the 2018 census.
The Cannon River a tributary of the Mississippi River flows 112 miles (180 km) from Lake Tetonka near Waterville to Red Wing in the U.S. state of Minnesota, where it joins the Mississippi River. It drains a watershed approximately 1460 square miles (3,780 km²) in size. The river flows through the counties of Le Sueur, Rice, Dakota, and Goodhue.
Cannon City is an unincorporated community in Cannon City Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States, five miles northeast of Faribault.
KYMN is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk/adult alternative format. Licensed to Northfield, Minnesota, United States, the station serves the southern portion of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The station is currently owned by Northfield Media, Inc., owned by Jeff Johnson, long time morning show host of KYMN, and features programming from CNN Radio and Westwood One.
Area code 507 is the telephone numbering plan code for the southern fifth of Minnesota, including cities such as Rochester, Mankato, Worthington, Fairmont, Albert Lea, and Austin. It was the third area code created for use in the state in 1954, following the original 218 and 612. It was created from the southwestern portion of 218 and the southern portion of 612.
Webster is an unincorporated community in Webster Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States.
Little Chicago is an unincorporated community in Webster Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States.
Raymond R. "Ray" Cox was a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from District 25B, which includes the communities of Belle Plaine, Bridgewater, Cedar Lake, Dundas, Erin, Forest, Helena, Lonsdale, Nerstrand, Northfield, Shieldsville, Webster, Wheatland and Wheeling, as well as several townships in Rice and Scott counties just south of the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Christdala Evangelical Swedish Lutheran Church is a historic church located in Forest Township, Rice County, Minnesota. It is situated 11 miles (18 km) west of Northfield at 4695 Millersburg Blvd.
Nicholas Gustafson was a Swedish immigrant who was mortally wounded in the James–Younger Gang bank raid in Northfield, Minnesota. Various sources use alternate spellings of his names including Nicolaus, Nicholaus or Niclas and Gustavson. He was born near Fiddekulla in the parish of Vissefjärda in Kalmar, Sweden.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rice County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Ruskin is an unincorporated community in Rice County, Minnesota, United States.
Hazelwood is an unincorporated community in Webster Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States.
Veseli is an unincorporated community in Wheatland Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States. The community was incorporated in 1889. It was named after Veselí, in the Czech Republic, a city whence its early settlers came. Veseli was one of the four largest communities in Minnesota originally settled by Czech immigrants.
Wheatland is an unincorporated community in Wheatland Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States.
Shieldsville is an unincorporated community in Shieldsville Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States.
Epsom is an unincorporated community in Richland Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States.
