Everts Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota
Everts Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 759 at the 2020 census.
Everts Township was organized in 1879, and named for Edmund A. Everts and his son Rezin Everts, early settlers.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 34.4 square miles (89 km2), of which 23.1 square miles (60 km2) is land and 11.2 square miles (29 km2) (32.71%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 774 people, 310 households, and 249 families residing in the township. The population density was 33.5 inhabitants per square mile (12.9/km2). There were 929 housing units at an average density of 40.2 per square mile (15.5/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 98.58% White, 0.26% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.26% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 0.13% from other races, and 0.52% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.26% of the population.
There were 310 households, out of which 18.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 77.1% were married couples living together, 2.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.4% were non-families.
“Everts Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota” enters the record as township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Everts, Township and Otter can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Everts Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Everts, Township and Otter provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1900278. Authority coordinates are 46.328, -95.734. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1879 and 2000.
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