- Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota has 765.0 square miles of land area and is the 30th largest county in Minnesota by total area. Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota is bordered by Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, Big Stone County, Minnesota, Grant County, South Dakota, Deuel County, South Dakota, Chippewa County, Minnesota, and Swift County, Minnesota.
- Auburn — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
The city of Auburn, located 20 miles south of Seattle, was home to some of the earliest non-Native settlers in King County. Nestled in a fertile river valley, Auburn has been both a farm community and a center of business and industry for more than 150 years.