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14 unusual facts about Grant County


Bethel, Oklahoma

Bethel, Grant County, Oklahoma, the site of a post office from March 12, 1895, until November 2, 1895

Castello Holford

He also wrote a 'History of Grant County, Wisconsin including its civil, political, geological, mineralogical, archaeological and military history, and a history of the several towns' in 1900.

Colin Neblett

He was a superintendent of schools for Grant County, New Mexico from 1907 to 1911, and was a judge on the Sixth Judicial District of New Mexico from 1912 to 1916.

Grant County, Georgia

He was born and grew up in the small town of Sylacauga, Alabama, famous for its white marble, producing Jim Nabors, and the first documented case of a person being struck by a meteorite.

Grant County, Oregon

The third man to serve as County Judge of Grant County was Cincinnatus Hiner “Joaquin” Miller (1837–1913), the noted poet, playwright, and western naturalist, called the "Poet of the Sierras" and the "Byron of the Rockies.

Harvey Whitehill

In 1874, Whitehill ran for and was elected sheriff of Grant County, New Mexico.

Howie Morales

Morales is currently the longest serving volunteer member of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Grant County.

James Cabanis

James Henry Cabanis (December 25, 1838 - ?) was an American merchant from Georgetown, Grant County, Wisconsin who spent two years as a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Grant County.

Minnesota State Highway 54

Highway 54, together with Highway 27, serve as an arterial route between Herman and the county seat at Elbow Lake.

State Highway 54 serves as a north–south route between the city of Elbow Lake and State Highway 27.

Minnesota State Highway 79

State Highway 79 serves as an east–west route in west-central Minnesota between Elbow Lake and Evansville.

Pipe Creek Sinkhole

Pipe Creek Sinkhole near Swayzee in Grant County, Indiana, is one of the most important paleontological sites in the interior of the eastern half of North America, due to preservation, and the exception from 'typical glacial strata mixing' from glaciation.

Rosaura Revueltas

The movie was based on the 1951 Empire Zinc strike in Grant County, New Mexico.

Trichopetalum whitei

The species is recorded from caves in the upper Potomac River drainage in Virginia (Augusta, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties) and West Virginia (Hardy, Grant, and Pendleton Counties).


Dry Falls Dam

Located in Grant County near Coulee City, it was built as part of the Bureau of Reclamation's Columbia Basin Project.

Richard S. Arnold

Arnold was beaten again in the 1972 congressional primary by then Attorney General Ray Thornton, of Sheridan in Grant County.

Sinsinawa Mound raid

The Sinsinawa Mound raid occurred on June 29, 1832, near the Sinsinawa mining settlement in Michigan Territory (present-day Grant County, Wisconsin in the United States).

Ted Ferrioli

He represents Senate District 30, which encompasses Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Malheur, Sherman, Wasco, Wheeler, and portions of Clackamas, Deschutes, and Marion counties.