District 6 is made up of over 140 corporate, community, advanced, and specialty Toastmasters Clubs across portions of Minnesota (excluding one county in the Southwest corner of Minnesota). More than 2,500 members enjoy the benefits of Toastmasters from rural areas to the suburbs to the metropolitan communities.
District 6 is divided into 5 Divisions and roughly 32 Areas. An Area can encompass 3 to 7 Clubs. A Division may have from 4 to 7 Areas.
District 6 first became a District on December 31, 1937 (some documents note it as July 1/1937). At that time, there were three Clubs. Today, the District is geographically smaller but larger in numbers of clubs and members.
To learn more about the District leadership team, please click here.
The boundaries of District 6 are as follows:
In Minnesota the counties of Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Jackson, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin, McLeod, Mower, Murray, Nicollet, Nobles, Olmsted, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rice, Scott, Sibley, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonwan, Winona, and Yellow Medicine; also, that part of Washington County south of a line extending eastward from the northern most boundary of Ramsey County including the municipalities of Afton, Bayport, Birchwood Village, Cottage Grove, Dellwood, Grant, Hastings, Lake Elmo, Lake Saint Croix Beach, Lakeland, Lakeland Shores, Landfall, Mahtomedi, Newport, Oak Park Heights, Oakdale, Pine Springs, Saint Marys Point, Saint Paul Park, Stillwater, Willernie, and Woodbury; also, that part of Hennepin County comprising of the MSP airport and Fort Snelling; also, the municipalities of Minneapolis, Bloomington, Edina, and Richfield; also, the municipality of Eden Prairie except that part within the Opus Campus which is north of Highway 62 and west of Highway 169.
District 6 is one of roughly 134 districts. It is a part of Region 4. Toastmasters Internationals has 12 regions spread across the world.
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The following map shows the area (in yellow) that District 6 covers.
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