Forest City 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 Forest City Township, Meeker County,

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, United States, near Litchfield and Watkins. The community is located along Meeker County Road 2 near its junction with State Highway 24 ( MN 24). The North Fork of the Crow River flows nearby.

History

Forest City 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 1857, and named for its location near the Big Woods. A post office was established at Forest City in 1856, and remained in operation until 1907. Forest City was attacked by Little Crow's band of Dakota during the 1862 Dakota War. Several buildings were burned, but the attack was unsuccessful.

References

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