Welcome to Pine County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please SEND IT TO US and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Created March 1, 1856 Named for the many white and Norway pine trees that once grew there A portion of the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation is in the county. Pine County was organized on March 1, 1856, with Chisago County being its primary parent county. Other portions of the original Pine County originated from Ramsey County. The original county seat was Chengwatana. In 1857, Buchanan County in full and southern portions of Aitkin and Carlton counties were formed from the original Pine County, with Kanabec County organized a year later. In 1861, Buchanan County was dissolved and folded into Pine County. Pine County was re-organized in 1872, with Pine City becoming the new county seat. Townships Cities Unincorporated Ghost Towns Arlone Twp Arna Twp Barry Twp Birch Creek Twp Bremen Twp Brook Park Twp Bruno Twp Chengwatana Twp Clover Twp Crosby Twp Danforth Twp Dell Grove Twp Finlayson Twp Fleming Twp Hinckley Twp Kerrick Twp Kettle River Twp Mission Creek Twp Munch Twp New Dosey Twp Nickerson Twp Norman Twp Ogema Twp Park Twp Partridge Twp Pine City Twp Pine Lake Twp Pokegama Twp Royalton Twp Sandstone Twp Sturgeon Lake Twp Wilma Twp Windemere Twp Askov Brook Park Bruno Denham Finlayson Henriette Hinckley Kerrick Pine City Rock Creek Rutledge Sandstone Sturgeon Lake Willow River Beroun Cloverdale Cloverton Duquette Duxbury Ellson Friesland Greeley Groningen Kingsdale Lake Lena Markville Mission Creek Nickerson Pokegama West Rock Belden Banning Big Spring Blomskog Chengwatana Danewood Eaglehead Harlis Midway Milburn Outflow Tozer Camp Villstad Wareham Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar. 2012: Obits: Maylone, Newey, Thompson; Birth: Dougan Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; Obits: Fredrickson; Richards; Skunk; Bio: Bede Jan 2012: Cemeteries; obits for FEYMA, , HARLANDMEYER, POSTMA, TOERING, ZWAKMAN - Death certificates for FERYMAN, HARTLAND, KAPPAUF Previous Updates: 1860 Federal Census (Pine Co), 1860 Federal Census (Buchanan Co), 1865 State Census, News Article - Forest Fires in 1894 SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Carlton County (north) Chisago County (south) Isanti County (southwest) Kanabec County (west) Aitkin County (northwest) Douglas County, WI (northeast) Burnett County, WI (southeast) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.