Nickerson is an unincorporated community in Nickerson Township, Pine County, Minnesota, United States.
The community is located between Sandstone and Duluth on Minnesota State Highway 23, near the boundary line for Pine and Carlton counties. It was named after John Quincy Adams Nickerson of Elk River, Minnesota, who promoted the building of the line of the Great Northern Railway that connected Sandstone to Duluth. It had a post office from 1895 to 1954.
The Nemadji State Forest is nearby.
|
||||||||||||||||||||