Childs was the name of a town in section 13 and 14 of Campbell Township

Campbell Township, Minnesota

Campbell Township is a township in Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 99 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...

 in Wilkin County

Wilkin County, Minnesota

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, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

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History

The town of Childs was named for a local farmer, Job W. Childs, who later moved to California. The town had a post office from 1888 until 1920, and a station of the Great Northern Railway which was abandoned in 1956. Today no trace of the town remains.