Washington County, Minnesota
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About Washington County
Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 267,568, making it the fifth-most populous county in Minnesota. Its county seat is Stillwater. The largest city in the county is Woodbury, the seventh-largest city in Minnesota and the third-largest Twin Cities suburb. Washington County is included in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Washington County at a glance
- County seat
- Stillwater
- Population
- 267,568 (2020)
- Land area
- 423 sq mi
- Founded
- 1849
Largest communities in Washington County
- Woodbury75,102
- Cottage Grove38,839
- Oakdale28,303
- Hastings22,154
- Forest Lake20,611
History of Washington County
Early development in the area was on the St. Croix River, which now forms the boundary with Wisconsin on the county's eastern side. The river provided a waterway to move settlers upstream and to transport logs downstream. The heavily forested area fostered an early logging and lumber economy. The area's first settlers arrived at the future Afton in 1837. In 1838 settlers started Dacotah, at the north edge of present Stillwater, at the junction of Brown's Creek and the St. Croix. The creek's name is from the founder of this settlement, Joseph Renshaw Brown. However, a sawmill was built at Marine-on-St.-Croix in 1839, and another was built in the current location of downtown Stillwater in 1844. The success of these soon attracted the settlers from Dacotah, and that community declined.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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