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Grand Rapids is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States, and it is the county seat. The population was 11,126 at the 2020 census . [2] The city is named for the 3.5-mile (5.6 km) long rapids in the Mississippi River which was the uppermost limit of practical steamboat travel during the late 19th century.
Address 420 N Pokegama Ave, Grand Rapids, MN 55744. Office Number Phone: 218-326-7600. Office Hours Monday-Friday: 8:00 AM-4:30 PM
Itasca County ( / aɪˈtæskə / eye-TASS-kə) [2] is a county located in the Iron Range region of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,014. [3] Its county seat is Grand Rapids. [4] The county is named after Lake Itasca, which is in turn a shortened version of the Latin words veritas caput, meaning 'truth ...
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Grand Rapids is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States, and it is the county seat. The population was 11,126 at the 2020 census. The city is named for the 3.5-mile long rapids in the Mississippi River which was the uppermost limit of practical steamboat travel during the late 19th century.
Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids is a small city in northern Minnesota and county seat of Itasca County. With more than 1,000 lakes inside the county, Grand Rapids serves as a popular destination for anglers looking for a good spot to cast a line. There are several smaller lakes in and around the downtown area, but the big kahuna is Pokegama Lake.
The Line 3 oil spill was a 1.7 million gallon crude oil spill in Minnesota on March 3, 1991. The Line 3 pipeline, then owned by the Lakehead Pipeline Company (now Enbridge ), ruptured on a wetland near Grand Rapids, Minnesota, spilling oil into the Prairie River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. It was the largest inland oil spill in the ...
