Vawter 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
Morrison 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
Little Falls and
Royalton. The community is located along 103rd Street near Morrison County Road 35, Iris Road. Vawter is located within
Bellevue Township and
Little Falls Township. The
Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge and the Rice–Skunk Lake Wildlife Management Area are both nearby.
History
Vawter 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 1908. A post office called Vawter was in operation from 1922 until 1940.
References
Unincorporated communities in Morrison County, Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Minnesota
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