Eden Valley is a railway village near the little town of Manannah. Eden Valley is very unusual in that the town is located in two Minnesota counties: Meeker and Stearns. (Most of Eden Valley is in Meeker County; the Stearns County portion is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area.) The town was platted in 1886, and it was named by officers of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (Soo Line). Why they picked the name is unknown. The part of the city in Stearns County began as Pappelbusch (often spelled Popple Bush) in Manannah Township in 1877. (The site was two and one-half miles east of the present Eden Valley.) That's a German name meaning "stand of popple trees.” August Loegering came to the site in about 1880. He bought a farm on the border of Stearns and Meeker Counties, opened a general store and a post office which he called Logering (1884-1893). To name a town, in those days, you simply had to establish a post office. The post office department left an “e” out of his name. When the Minneapolis and Pacific Railroad built through sections 2 and 3 of the present city, all the businesses moved there, so Logering disappeared. Logering was 5 miles west of Watkins. The railroad was built 1 mile south of Logering. The post office, begun as Eden Lake in Stearns County in 1872, was transferred to the new village of Eden Valley in 1887. Eden Valley was incorporated as a village on April 25, 1894. More than a dozen lakes can be found within a 10-mile radius of Eden Valley including Lake Koronis, Rice Lake, and the famed Horseshoe Chain of Lakes. The 2010 census listed the Eden Valley population as 1042 people. Minnesota State Highways 22 (State Street) and 55 are two of the main routes in the community.