Editing Warren, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Warren was [[plat]]ted in 1879, and named for [[Charles Howard Warren|Charles H. Warren]], a railroad official.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n350 331]}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Warren since 1880.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Marshall | title=Marshall County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=July 13, 2015}}</ref>

Although several times larger than the next largest city in the county, Warren's prominence as the county seat has been threatened several times in its history.  The original plan for the [[Soo Line Railroad]] (completed in 1905) branch line that passes through Warren called for it to run from [[Thief River Falls, Minnesota|Thief River Falls]] to [[Argyle, Minnesota|Argyle]] and then west.  Argyle interests hoped the establishment of a railroad junction there would lead to the removal of the county seat from Warren to Argyle.  Other interests prevailed, although the railroad line forms a [[parabola]] extending north from Thief River Falls, and then south to Warren, as if the plan changed while the line was being built.<sup>[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Warren,+MN,+United+States+of+America&ie=UTF8&ll=48.263084,-96.622696&spn=0.203412,0.462799&z=11&om=1]</sup>  In 1974, citizens of the eastern part of the county, noting Warren's location in the western quarter of the long county, and very nearly at its southern boundary, petitioned twice for the relocation of the county seat to [[Newfolden, Minnesota|Newfolden]].  Neither effort that year resulted in the question being put on the ballot, and in fact, voters in the interim had approved the construction of an addition to the courthouse in Warren.

Warren was featured on a 2006 episode of the [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]]'s ''[[UFO Files]]'' episode "Alien Encounters." The unsolved case of a mysterious object impacting a county sheriff's car on August 27, 1979, was featured (see [[Val Johnson Incident]]). This same case was also featured in 2012 on the [[Travel Channel]]'s ''[[Mysteries at the Museum]]'' episode "MGM Fire; UFO Car, Prophecy Sword"