Location
Beaver Falls is in Renville County BEAVER FALLS Township, organized April 2, 1867, and its village in section 22, platted July 25, 1866, and incorporated January 21, 1890, received their name from Beaver Creek, which is a translation of the Dakota name Chapah River, noted on Joseph N. Nicollet's map in 1843. This village was the first county seat, until a very long contest, begun in 1885, was finally decided in October 1900 by removal of the county offices to Olivia. An act to invalidate the incorporation was approved on April 14, 1891. The village was platted on land owned by David Carrothers and Sam McPhail, the latter residing in Redwood Falls; a post office operated 1867-1904. From: Upham, Warren. Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, First edition 1920. Third Edition 2001. Print.
