One community per instalment, read from Warren Upham’s Minnesota Geographic Names (1920).
Warren Upham's 1920 gazetteer gives one waterfall on the Big fork two place names, Grand Falls and Big Falls. This instalment reads his entries and the streams he lists nearby.
Warren Upham's 1920 gazetteer records why Jameson township, the village of Little Fork, and nearby Pelland and Lindford carry the names they do.
Warren Upham's 1920 gazetteer devotes just one sentence to Ranier, naming it a railway village at the mouth of Rainy lake, and the page around it says more.
Upham's 1920 gazetteer traces the Cree name shared by Koochiching County, the lake, the river and the falls through two centuries of written record.
Warren Upham's 1920 gazetteer entry for International Falls: the falls it's named for, the 1908 dam, and the two county officers who told him.
