Editing Dent, Minnesota (section)

==History==
A post office called Dent has been in operation since 1900.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Otter+Tail |title=Otter Tail County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=July 28, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302201850/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Otter+Tail |archive-date=2 March 2016 }}</ref> Dent was [[plat]]ted in 1903, and was incorporated on September 6, 1904.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n412 393]}}</ref> The name's origin is obscure;<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=145|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=141}}</ref> some say it came from Henry Dent, a railroad official.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}}

[[File:DentMN-welcomesign.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Sign and flowers in a brick planter. Sign reads "established 1904, Dent welcomes you," and has images of two corn cobs.|Sign welcoming visitors to Dent.]]