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Wilkin County, Minnesota
Wilkin County Courthouse — CC BY-SA 3.0, McGhiever · source

About Wilkin County

Wilkin County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population of Wilkin County was 6,506. 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.

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Wilkin County at a glance

County seat
Breckenridge
Population
6,506 (2020)
Land area
751 sq mi
Founded
1868

Largest communities in Wilkin County

  1. Breckenridge county seat3,430
  2. Rothsay498
  3. Prairie View Township228
  4. Breckenridge Township215
  5. Campbell164

History of Wilkin County

In 1849, the newly organized Minnesota Territory legislature authorized the creation of nine large counties across the territory. One of those, Pembina (later renamed as Kittson), contained areas that were partitioned off on March 8, 1858, to create Toombs County, named after Robert Toombs (1810–85) of Georgia. Toombs had been a member of the US House of Representatives (1845–1853), and US Senate (1853–1861). He became the Confederate secretary of state in 1861; this disloyalty to the Union displeased county residents, who petitioned for a name change. Accordingly, in 1863, the county was renamed Andy Johnson County for Andrew Johnson, who was serving as the military governor of Tennessee at the time. However, Johnson's actions and positions as US President (1865–1869) also displeased county residents, so on March 6, 1868, the county name was again changed, to Wilkin County.

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