Editing Isanti County, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The county was formed on February 13, 1857.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/collections17minnuoft/page/248 Upham, Warren. ''Minnesota Geographic Names, p. 249''  (1920). Accessed 12 March 2019]</ref> Its name came from the Izaty Indians, the ancient name for the [[Santee Sioux|Santee Indians]], members of the Dakota alliance. ''Isanti'' is derived from the [[Dakota language|Dakota]] word for "knife" and refers to the [[Dakota people|Santee]] tribe.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gannett, Henry |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |year=1905 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n155 166]}}</ref>

Isanti County is included in the [[Minneapolis]]-[[Saint Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]]-[[Bloomington, Minnesota|Bloomington]] [[Minneapolis–Saint Paul|Metropolitan Statistical Area]].