New Prairie, Minnesota
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New Prairie is a ghost town
Ghost town
A ghost town is an abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters...

 in New Prairie Township
New Prairie Township, Pope County, Minnesota
New Prairie Township is a township in Pope County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 252 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.8 square miles , of which, 35.2 square miles of it is land and...

 in Pope County
Pope County, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 11,236 people, 4,513 households, and 3,064 families residing in the county. The population density was 17 people per square mile . There were 5,827 housing units at an average density of 9 per square mile...

, 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
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. It lies between the cities of Cyrus
Cyrus, Minnesota
Cyrus is a city in Pope County in the U.S. State of Minnesota, United States, along the Chippewa River. The population was 288 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....

 and Starbuck
Starbuck, Minnesota
Starbuck is a city in Pope County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,302 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Minnesota State Highways 28, 29, and 114 are three of the main routes in the city.-History:...

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History

The village of New Prairie had a post office from 1872 until 1883, and again from 1920 until 1946. New Prairie also had a station of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
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