Yucatan is an unincorporated community in Yucatan Township, Houston County, Minnesota, United States. Settlement began a few miles south in 1852 when several Winnebago Indians were said to help Edwin Stevens build his log cabin. This first settler moved to a dwelling in the woods near the South Fork of the Root River in the autumn of 1855. The next spring, he moved again and platted a 50-acre townsite and constructed five log buildings. For an unknown reason, Stevens named the settlement Yucatan – said to be 2,000 miles north of the large Mexican peninsula with the same name.
Today, there appear to be little more than a handful of residences in the town site that once boasted a store, a dance hall, a blacksmith shop, a school, a post office and a nearby creamery.
This cache was placed to help with the Minnesota Alphabet Cities Challenge by tesser. There aren't many places in Minnesota that begin with Y, even when going down to empty unincorporated communities. The only other one I am aware of is Yankeetown, in extreme western Minnesota.