Baudette

Baudette is a city and county seat of Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,106 at the 2010 census. It is known as the Walleye Capital of the World.HistoryBaudette was incorporated in 1907. Baudette began as a steamboat landing and lumber town with a sawmill, following the railroad coming through in 1901. It was named for Joseph Baudette, a trapper who had been in the area since the early 1880s. The post office at Baudette began in 1900, first called Port Hyland, with Daniel Hyland as postmaster, changing to Baudette in 1901. Baudette had a station of the Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad, now Canadian National Railway.Baudette was largely destroyed by the Baudette Fire of 1910, but was quickly rebuilt.GeographyAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.66sqmi, of which 4.25sqmi is land and 0.41sqmi is water.The city is located along the Rainy River at its confluence with the Baudette River. It lies across the Rainy River from the town of Rainy River, Ontario and southeast of the Lake of the Woods.