Photo: #Baldwin Township's population has sextupled in the last 40 years, with subdivisons springing out of farm fields. Town Board Chair Jeff Holm describes the growth as "totally unplanned."

Baldwin Township: A Portrait

by Nikki Tundel, Minnesota Public Radio

For generations, Baldwin Township was populated almost entirely by family farms, vacation cabins and seemingly endless groves of pine trees. Then, in the early 1990s, this tiny slice of rural Minnesota became one of the fastest growing communities in the state.