KANDIYOHI COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		Current
Location		 Type Date
Built		 Current
Use		 Track
Status		 Building
Material		 More
Info
Atwater 123 4th Street North
(GPS: 45.138090, -94.782155)		 C 1912 Civic None Wood  
kandiyohi 610 Highway 71 NE, Willmar
(GPS: 45.126963, -95.036226)		 C 1900 Museum None Wood  
New London 3rd Avenue SW between Oak and Norwood Streets
(GPS: 45.297712, -94.947614)		 C 1885 Civic None Wood
Spicer
(Spicer On The Green)		 Lake Avenue North (east side of MN-23)
(GPS: 45.245951, -94.938953)		 C 1890 Business None Wood  
willmar North side of Pacific Ave. SW (US 12)
just west of 3rd Street SW
(GPS: 45.122889, -95.048556)		 P 1946 Railroad In Use Brick  
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		 Notes
Atwater According to an 1886 map, the original St.PM&M station was north of the intersection of Pacific Avenue West and 4th Street South.
Atwater According to the 1915 GN Valuation Records, a new station was built in 1912 with dimensions of 30'x96'.
Blomkest
(Kester)		  
Grue This station was abandoned by the GN in November 1922.
Hawick  
Kandiyohi According to an 1886 map, the original station was at the corner of 5th and Atlantic (later the site of the expanded grain elevator grounds).
Kandiyohi According to the 1915 GN Valuation Records, a new station was built in 1900 with dimensions of 24'x48'.
Lake Lillian  
pennock  
Priam  
Prinsburg  
raymond  
Regal
(Lintonville)		  
Roseland  
St. Johns
(Pennock)		 St. Johns was the former name of Pennock. The original station was on 11th Avenue (now renamed) between Atlantic and Pacific.
Thorpe  
Willmar The original St.PM&M wood frame station was built in 1869 and burned down in 1889 (The (Morris) Sun, 10-3-1889). This station may have also served the Willmar & Sioux Falls RR (also later GN) which came into town from the SW and connected with the St.PM&M not far from the station.
Willmar This station replaced the one listed above. It was built in 1891 and was located at the same site as the existing station at the corner of Pacific Avenue and 4th Street SW (which used to go through to the station) at GPS: 45.122924, -95.048457.
Willmar According to the 1915 GN Valuation Records, this freight station was built in 1889 with dimensions of 24'x80'. It was at the corner of 3rd and Pacific Streets at GPS: 45.123081, -95.047011.
1898 KANDIYOHI COUNTY RAILROAD MAP
Notes About Existing Stations...

New London (GN) - The station was moved across town in the 1970s to become a permanent home for Boy Scout Troop 228. The building is owned by the troop’s charter organization, the American Legion.