Melrude, Minnesota
Encyclopedia
Melrude is an unincorporated community
in Ellsburg Township, St. Louis County
, Minnesota
, United States
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The community is located northeast of Cotton
at the junction
of County Road 59 (Melrude Road) and County Road 322 (Lee Road).
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
in Ellsburg Township, St. Louis County
St. Louis County, Minnesota
St. Louis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, the population was 200,226. Its county seat is Duluth. It is the largest county by total area in Minnesota, and the second largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River; in land area alone, after Aroostook...
, 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...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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The community is located northeast of Cotton
Cotton, Minnesota
Cotton is an unincorporated community in Cotton Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.The community is located 36 miles northwest of the city of Duluth at the junction of U.S. Highway 53 and County Road 52...
at the junction
Junction (traffic)
A junction, when discussed in the context of transport, is a location where traffic can change between different routes, directions, or sometimes modes, of travel.-Historical significance:...
of County Road 59 (Melrude Road) and County Road 322 (Lee Road).