Pierce County was a
county
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
in
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 ...
, created on March 5, 1853, from
Dakota County. It was originally bounded by the
Minnesota River
The Minnesota River () is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of in Minnesota and about in South Dakota and Iowa.
It rises in southwestern ...
to the west and the south,
Nicollet County to the east, north fork of the
Crow River to the north, and
Pembina County in the northwest. It was fully dissolved and incorporated into
Big Sioux,
Davis and
Renville Renville may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Renville, Minnesota
* Renville County, Minnesota
* Renville County, North Dakota
Renville County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 United ...
Counties in 1855.
{{Geographic Location
, Centre = Pierce County, Minnesota
, North =
Cass County
, Northeast =
Cass County
, East =
Nicollet County
, Southeast =
Blue Earth County
, South =
Blue Earth County
, Southwest =
Blue Earth County
, West =
Blue Earth County
, Northwest =
Pembina County
Former counties of Minnesota