Riceford, Minnesota

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Coordinates: 43°34′34″N91°43′37″W / 43.57611°N 91.72694°W / 43.57611; -91.72694 Coordinates: 43°34′34″N91°43′37″W / 43.57611°N 91.72694°W / 43.57611; -91.72694
Country United States
State Minnesota
County Houston
Elevation
1,014 ft (309 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 507
GNIS feature ID650057 [1]

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

Houston County, Minnesota County in the United States

Houston County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 19,027. Its county seat is Caledonia.

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

A post office was established at Riceford in 1855, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1905. [2] The community was named for Henry Mower Rice, a Minnesota Territory politician who forded Riceford Creek at this place in the 1850s. [3]

Henry Mower Rice American politician

Henry Mower Rice was a fur trader and an American politician prominent in the statehood of Minnesota.

Riceford Creek is a stream in Minnesota. The river meanders over about 20 miles (32 km) from the town of Mabel, Minnesota to the town of Yucatan, Minnesota, where it flows into the South Fork of the Root River.

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Riceford, Minnesota
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Riceford Post Office (historical)
  3. Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 239.