Wahnata County was an extinct county in Minnesota Territory. Created as one of the original 9 counties in 1849, the county was dissolved in 1851. Minnesota counties (−) (±)Kittson County, Minnesota (−) (±)1878 establishments in Minnesota (−) (±)Populated places established in 1878 (−) (±)(+) Hidden categories: Use mdy dates from April 2019Articles with short descriptionShort description is different from WikidataWikipedia articles with LCCN identifiersWikipedia articles with VIAF identifiersWikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiersCoordinates on Wikidata A start-class article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Pembina County, Minnesota) Jump to navigation Jump to search Kittson County U.S. county Lake Bronson Dam Lake Bronson Dam Map of Minnesota highlighting Kittson County Location within the U.S. state of Minnesota Map of the United States highlighting Minnesota Minnesota's location within the U.S. Coordinates: 48°47′N 96°47′W Country United States State Minnesota Founded March 9, 1878 (created by renaming Pembina Co.) February 25, 1879 (organized) Named for Norman Wolfred Kittson Seat Hallock Largest city Hallock Area • Total 1,104 sq mi (2,860 km2) • Land 1,099 sq mi (2,850 km2) • Water 4.8 sq mi (12 km2) 0.4%% Population (2010) • Total 4,552 • Estimate (2019) 4,298 • Density 3.87/sq mi (1.49/km2) Time zone UTC−6 (Central) • Summer (DST) UTC−5 (CDT) Congressional district 7th Website www.co.kittson.mn.us Kittson County is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota along the Canada–US border, south of the Canadian province of Manitoba. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,552.[1] Its county seat is Hallock.[2] Contents 1 History 1.1 Historic sites 2 Geography 2.1 Major highways 2.2 Adjacent counties and rural municipalities 2.3 Protected areas[6] 2.4 Lakes[6] 3 Demographics 4 2000 census 5 Communities 5.1 Cities 5.2 Unincorporated communities 5.3 Ghost town 5.4 Townships 5.5 Unorganized territories 6 Politics 7 See also 8 References 1 History Evidence of occupation dating back 1800 years has been confirmed through archaeological expeditions done in the 1930s and 1970s around the burial mounds on the sand ridges in the eastern part of the county, which date to the Woodland Period. Evidence has been found that the Laurel, Arvilla, St. Croix, and Blackduck complexes were the area's early occupants. Approximately 400 years ago, the Cree, Assiniboine, Sioux and Ojibway inhabited the county. The early explorers of the region were fur traders. Pembina, North Dakota's oldest settlement, across the Red River from Kittson County, dates from 1797, when the first trading