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Place Name
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Yellow Medicine County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Granite Falls
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Population
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11,684 (1990)
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Location
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Minnesota, United States, North America
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Latitude
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44°43'N
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Longitude
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95°51'W
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Yellow Medicine
, county (
763 sq mi/1,976 sq km; 1990 pop.
11,684), SW Minn.;  Granite Falls; 44°43'N 95°51'W. Bounded
W by S.Dak. and NE by Minnesota R.; drained by Lac qui Parle and Yellow
Medicine rivers. Agr. (corn, oats, wheat, soybeans, alfalfa, sugar
beets; hogs, cattle, sheep); granite. Upper Sioux Agency State Park and
Monument and Upper Sioux Indian Reservation in E, on Minnesota R.
Formed 1871.
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