Cresson, Minnesota

Cresson is an unincorporated community (Class Code U6) located in Pipestone County, Minnesota at latitude 44.111 and longitude -96.435 (Cresson Panoramio Photos). The elevation is 1,673 feet. Cresson appears on the Elkton SW U.S. Geological Survey Map.^[1]^[2]

Close to the bordering states of South Dakota to the west and Iowa to the south, Cresson lies in rural southwest Minnesota near the Pipestone National Monument, a National Park Service property established in 1937. The monument's 301 acres protect tallgrass prairie and quarries of red pipestone, or catlinite, traditionally used by Native Americans to make pipes.^[3]

References

External links

GNIS Map of Cresson, Minnesota

Municipalities and communities of Pipestone County, Minnesota, United States

County seat: Pipestone

Cities	Edgerton Hatfield Holland Ihlen Jasper‡ Pipestone Ruthton Trosky Woodstock

Townships	Aetna Altona Burke Eden Elmer Fountain Prairie Grange Gray Osborne Rock Sweet Troy

Unincorporated communities	Airlie Cazenovia Cresson

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 44°06′40″N 96°26′07″W / 44.11111°N 96.43528°W / 44.11111; -96.43528

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, February 22, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.