Editing Red Lake County, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Red Lake County was formed on December 24, 1896,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Minnesota Place Names |url=http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/county.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620201420/http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/county.cfm |archive-date=June 20, 2012 |access-date=March 19, 2014 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society}}</ref> from sections of [[Polk County, Minnesota|Polk County]]. It was named for the [[Red Lake River]]. Its designated county seat was [[Red Lake Falls, Minnesota|Red Lake Falls]], which had been incorporated (as a village) in 1881.<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/n464 445]}}</ref>

The county has two sites on the National Register of Historic Places: the courthouse and [[Clearwater Evangelical Lutheran Church]].