Editing Kasota, Minnesota (section)

===Namesakes===
Kasota (Dakota for "a cleared place")<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273 |title=Minnesota geographic names: their ... - Warren Upham - Google Books |accessdate=November 10, 2011|last1=Upham |first1=Warren |year=1920 }}</ref> was the name of a wooden Great Lakes iron ore steamer, built in 1884.<ref name="boatnerd1">{{cite web|url=http://www.boatnerd.com/swayze/shipwreck/p.htm |title=The Great Lakes Shipwreck File Vessel Names That Begin With P |publisher=[[Boatnerd.com]] |date=March 6, 1904 |accessdate=November 10, 2011}}</ref> The ''Kasota'' sank after colliding with the passenger steamer ''The City of Detroit'' on the Detroit River on July 18, 1890.<ref name="MHOTGL">{{cite web|url=http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/details.asp?ID=59897 |title=Kasota (Propeller), sunk by collision, July 17, 1890: Maritime History of the Great Lakes |publisher=Images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca |date=January 1, 2009 |accessdate=November 10, 2011}}</ref> The ''Kasota'' was salvaged and rebuilt in 1892<ref name="MHOTGL"/> but sank again after springing a leak during a storm off [[Grand Marais, Michigan]], on September 19, 1903.<ref name="boatnerd1"/>

The [[USS Kasota (YTB-222)|USS ''Kasota'']] was a naval tugboat, launched in 1944 and struck from the Navy list in 1961. It is believed that the ''Kasota'' (also known as the "Mighty Deuces") was the last wooden hull tug in the Navy at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nafts.net/ytb222.htm |title=Kasota |publisher=Nafts.net |date= |accessdate=November 10, 2011}}</ref>