The Gopher Count is an annual community festival held in Viola, Minnesota, United States. Since 1874, the event has been on the third Thursday in June. Some the events include a parade, a tractor show, a nail-driving contest (women only), a pie-eating contest, fireworks, and dancing. Gopher Count is thirteen years younger than Minnesota's longest, continuously-running celebration, Stiftungsfest, which began in 1861.
The festival is named for the practice of collecting a bounty on killed gophers, still paid by the township, though other aspects of the festival are more actively promoted.