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We invite you to browse our web site to learn about our various County offices and the services Mitchell County, Iowa offers its citizens. A regular meeting of the Mitchell County Board of Supervisors will be held at 8:30 a.m. every Tuesday in the Supervisors’ Room at the Courthouse in Osage,Iowa which meetings will be open to the public.
We encourage you to visit often to learn more about Mitchell County: our courthouse, government, programs, services and recreational opportunities. We will be adding many new features in the next few weeks and months.
Mitchell County is an equal opportunity employer and provider of services.
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Mitchell was created on January 15, 1851 (Organized in 1854) from Unorganized Territory. The County was named for either John Mitchel, an Irish patriot, or John Mitchell, an early surveyor. The County Seat is Osage.
Counties adjacent to Mitchell County are Mower County, Minnesota (north), Howard County (east), Floyd County (south), Cerro Gordo County (southwest), Worth County (west). Cities and Towns Include Carpenter, McIntire, Mitchell, Orchard, Osage, St. Ansgar, Stacyville.
Mitchell County was originally part of Fayette County until it was established in 1851 at a winter session of the Iowa legislature. The county was named either after John Mitchell, an Irish patriot and refugee of 1948, or after an early surveyor.
The first settlers of the county were Leonard Cutler and his son. They passed through Mitchell County in the fall of 1851 and returned the following spring to make a land claim. The first families to settle were the families of L. S. Hart and Orrin, his son, who came in the summer of 1852.
The county originated in 1854 and county officers were first elected August 7, 1854. Each newly-elected officer opened his county office in his own cabin until a building could be provided.
