Amiret, Minnesota

AMIRET Township, settled in 1868 and organized March 17, 1874, was at first called Madison, which was changed in 1879 to the present name, taken from its railway village. The name was chosen in honor of Amiretta Sykes, wife of M. L. Sykes, vice president of the Chicago and North Western Railway company. The first townsite in the area of Lyon County had been platted in 1857 about three miles southwest from the site of this village and was named Saratoga, which name was given in 1874 to the railway village then platted in section 19. When the railway was being built, in 1872, a post office had been established there and named Coburg in honor of William Coburn, the pioneer merchant and first postmaster. In 1879 the name Amiret was chosen, superseding both these names and the former township name of Madison.
Amiret is an unincorporated community in Amiret Township in Lyon County, Minnesota. The population was 100 at the 1990 Census.