Editing Mahnomen County, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The county was created from the east half of [[Norman County, Minnesota|Norman County]] on December 27, 1906, with [[Mahnomen, Minnesota|Mahnomen]], a former railway station town, as the county seat. The county was named for the town, the name of which is one spelling of the Ojibwe word for "wild rice".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Upham |first=Warren |url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog |title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |year=1920 |page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n340 321] |access-date=April 18, 2019}}</ref>

From 1857 to 1858, similarly named [[Manomin County, Minnesota|Manomin County]] existed in Minnesota, which merged into [[Anoka County, Minnesota|Anoka County]].