Havana is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Havana Township, Steele County,

Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

, United States, near Owatonna. The community is located along SE 44th Avenue near SE 18th Street.

History

Havana was

plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...

ted in 1867, when the Winona and St. Peter Railroad was extended to that point. The community was named after

Havana, Illinois Havana is a city and the county seat of Mason County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,963 at the 2020 census, a decline from the figure of 3,301 tabulated in 2010. History Havana was a major ancient American settlement two thousan ...

. A post office was established at Havanna in 1869, and remained in operation until 1911.

References

Unincorporated communities in Steele County, Minnesota Unincorporated communities in Minnesota {{SteeleCountyMN-geo-stub