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Shermans Corner, Minnesota

unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Minnesota

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7495147 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shermans Corner is a populated place in Angora Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

It is located five miles south of Cook at the junction of U.S. Highway 53, Minnesota Highway 1, and Saint Louis County Road 22.

Sherman Corner is adjacent to Angora.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Shermans Corner, Minnesota” as unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Minnesota. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Shermans, Corner and Minnesota.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 45-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Shermans, Corner and Minnesota providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Shermans Corner, Minnesota”, the useful work is to connect “unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Minnesota” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7495147. Authority coordinates are 47.779, -92.656. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shermans Corner, Minnesota”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shermans Corner, Minnesota primary sources, Shermans Corner, Minnesota archive and Shermans research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Shermans Corner, Minnesota”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Shermans Corner, Minnesota” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.