Burnsville, Minnesota
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GNIS feature ID | 0640669[4] | |
Website | burnsvillemn.gov |
Burnsville (/ˈbɜːrnzvɪl/ BURNZ-vil) is a city 15 miles (24 km) south of downtown Minneapolis in Dakota County, Minnesota. The city is situated on a bluff overlooking the south bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from its confluence with the Mississippi River. Burnsville and nearby suburbs form the southern portion of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.7 million residents. At the 2020 census the population was 64,317.[2]
The name Burnsville is attributed to an early Irish settler and land owner, William Byrne. His surname was recorded as "Burns" and was never corrected.[5]
Burnsville stands on land that once contained a village of Mdewakanton Dakota. Later, it became a rural Irish farming community. Burnsville became Minnesota's 14th-largest city in the 2020 census following the construction of
Burnsville is home to a regional mall (Burnsville Center), a section of Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve, 310-foot (94 m) vertical ski peak Buck Hill, and part of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
History
The
In the 19th century, Burnsville was considered far from downtown Minneapolis. Rail access came in 1864 and Burnsville became a resort town, with cottages along Crystal Lake as well as Orchard Lake and Marion Lake in nearby Lakeville.[9] The Bloomington Ferry provided river crossings until 1889 when the original Bloomington Ferry Bridge was built. By 1920, the Lyndale Avenue Drawbridge opened next to Black Dog Lake, extending Minneapolis's first north-south highway to the rural communities of southern Minnesota. Later, the bridge, upgraded several times, was replaced by the I-35W Minnesota River bridge. In 1950, just before the World War II postwar housing boom, Burnsville was still a quiet township with a population of 583. School was taught in a one-room schoolhouse containing eight grades.[15]
After the arrival of Interstate 35W in 1960, the next two decades saw the largest boom in population when postwar pressures forced the community to develop at rapid pace. Byrnesville Township was officially incorporated in 1964 after defeating an annexation attempt by the city of
Descendants of the Byrne family still remain in greater Minnesota with the original spelling in their surname. A relative who dedicated William Byrne Elementary in the 1960s considered petitioning to correct the spelling but most of the family had moved away for several decades.[5]
Geography
Fed by receding glaciers and Lake Agassiz 12,000 years ago, the Glacial River Warren carved today's Minnesota River valley. On Burnsville's northern border, the Minnesota River winds through marshland and flood plains toward its confluence with the Mississippi. Most of the river is in the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge with fish, wildlife, and parkland managed collectively by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Burnsville also contains the Black Dog and Lower Minnesota River Watershed Districts, managed by the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District.[19][20][21]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has an area of 26.93 square miles (69.75 km2), of which 24.91 square miles (64.52 km2) is land and 2.02 square miles (5.23 km2) is water.[22]
Interstate Highway
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1860 | 214 | — | |
1870 | 361 | 68.7% | |
1880 | 388 | 7.5% | |
1890 | 309 | −20.4% | |
1900 | 358 | 15.9% | |
1910 | 385 | 7.5% | |
1920 | 419 | 8.8% | |
1930 | 490 | 16.9% | |
1940 | 495 | 1.0% | |
1950 | 583 | 17.8% | |
1960 | 2,716 | 365.9% | |
1970 | 19,940 | 634.2% | |
1980 | 35,674 | 78.9% | |
1990 | 51,288 | 43.8% | |
2000 | 60,220 | 17.4% | |
2010 | 60,306 | 0.1% | |
2020 | 64,317 | 6.7% | |
2022 (est.) | 63,936 | [3] | −0.6% |
U.S. Decennial Census[23] 2020 Census[2] |
The earliest settlers were roughly 250 Mdewakanton Dakota who lived permanently at Black Dog camp.
In 1960, the U.S. Census Bureau recorded the population of Byrnesville Township at 2,716 and soon after, the postwar growth was dramatic, filling the city with second- to third-generation European descendants from Minneapolis. From 1960 to 1970, the population rose to nearly 20,000 and by 2000, the population was roughly 60,000.
2020 census
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Race / Ethnicity | Pop 2000[25] | Pop 2010[26] | Pop 2020[27] | % 2000 | % 2010 | % 2020 |
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White alone (NH)
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51,952 | 44,563 | 39,487 | 86.27% | 73.89% | 61.39% |
Black or African American alone (NH)
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2,433 | 5,926 | 9,852 | 4.04% | 9.83% | 15.32% |
Alaska Native alone (NH)
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244 | 175 | 220 | 0.41% | 0.29% | 0.34% |
Asian alone (NH) | 2,433 | 3,020 | 3,631 | 4.04% | 5.01% | 5.65% |
Pacific Islander alone (NH) | 40 | 46 | 55 | 0.07% | 0.08% | 0.09% |
Other race alone (NH) | 129 | 132 | 379 | 0.21% | 0.22% | 0.59% |
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) | 1,264 | 1,688 | 3,025 | 2.10% | 2.80% | 4.70% |
Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1,725 | 4,756 | 7,668 | 2.86% | 7.89% | 11.92% |
Total | 60,220 | 60,306 | 64,317 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% |
2010 census
As of the
There were 24,283 households, of which 32.1% had children under 18 living with them, 48.4% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 35.5% were non-families. 27.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.03.
The median age in the city was 35.9. 11% of residents were under the age of 18; 9% were between 18 and 24; 28.6% were from 25 to 44; 26.7% were from 45 to 64; and 11.7% were 65 or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.7% male and 51.3% female.
Economy
Burnsville's biggest employer is its school district, Independent School District 191, followed by
Retail shopping is along County Road 42 and Highway 13 in the west and east sections of the city with local shopping nodes positioned throughout. The largest strip, County Road 42, is lined with suburban strip malls, restaurants, goods and grocery stores. The anchor of the strip, Burnsville Center, is a 1,275,703-square-foot (118,516.7 m2) regional mall.
Burnsville is a 15- to 30-minute drive from many regional attractions and services, such as the
provide even more shopping hubs, lakes and parks.Heart of the City
Burnsville's "Heart of the City" project is a downtown development policy driven by
The 1150-seat postmodern Burnsville Performing Arts Center, now
Arts and culture
The
Annually every August or September, the community holds the Burnsville Fire Muster. Established in 1980, the event originated in the 1970s as a showcase and short parade for a local fire equipment collector. Taking on the New England fire muster[32] tradition, the event now includes a large parade, music concerts, and fireworks. In 2004, the Guinness Book of World Records cited the namesake event of this celebration, a fire truck parade, as the longest of its kind in the world at that time.[33][34]
Parks and recreation
The city contains 1,800 acres (7.3 km2) of parkland throughout 79 parks and is managed by the Burnsville Parks Department, which follows a Parks & Trails Master Plan. Only a third is developed and for recreation, with the remainder preserved as natural habitat. Burnsville's border with the Minnesota River is within the
Burnsville Athletic Club is an all-volunteer youth sports league. It has an annual participation of nearly 1,300 in the baseball leagues for grades K-12, 80–90 boys' basketball teams in grades 3–12, and over 400 in flag and tackle American football in grades 2–8. There are also traveling teams for boys' and girls' basketball, girls' fast pitch softball, and 8th grade boys' football, which play against similar teams from around the state at a higher competitive level. Other adult sports are provided through the city's recreation department, other recreational organizations, and minor league groups.
Burnsville has over 58 playgrounds and roughly 11 recreational lakes. The most heavily used lakes are Keller Lake, Crystal Lake, Kruse Lake, and Aligmanet Lake (split with Burnsville's neighbor
Government and politics
Burnsville operates as a Statutory Plan B city under the Minnesota Legislature. Government consists of an elected city council of one executive mayor and four council members. All four council members are elected at-large to serve four-year terms. The mayor's term was changed from two to four years in 2000. The city manager is in charge of administrative duties, including employment of the city. As one of many Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan municipalities, the city is required to regularly submit a Comprehensive Plan detailing infrastructure and development progress to the Metropolitan Council.
Elizabeth Kautz has been mayor since 1995, elected after serving two years on the city council, where she replaced Ken Wolf, who was elected to the State House of Representatives in District 41B. Having been reelected eight times, she has served for over 27 years.[37] Kautz's framework of progressive activity and financial management has been studied academically.[38] She cites in her biography that she has reduced Burnsville's debt, increased infrastructure improvement, maintained the scheduled property tax decrease, established a new youth center, and overseen the establishment of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority.[37][39]
One of Kautz's major redevelopment projects was the Burnsville Heart of the City, the intersecting commercial areas near Burnsville Parkway and Nicollet Avenue.[37] In the 2008 mayoral election, her opponent cited the 1,000-seat regional performing arts center component as misuse of public funds toward arts.[40]
The city is in multiple districts in both the Minnesota Senate (51, 56) and Minnesota House (51A, 56A, 56B). Burnsville is represented in the State Senate by Jim Carlson (District 51, DFL) and Lindsey Port (District 56, DFL), and in the State House by Sandra Masin (District 51A, DFL), Jessica Hanson (District 56A, DFL), and Kaela Berg (District 56B, DFL).
Burnsville is in
Politics
Year | Republican | Democratic | Third parties
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2020 | 37.4% 13,179 | 60.1% 21,171 | 2.5% 885 |
2016 | 39.7% 13,011 | 51.4% 16,833 | 8.9% 2,902 |
2012 | 45.3% 15,326 | 52.5% 17,778 | 2.2% 756 |
2008 | 45.2% 14,931 | 53.1% 17,552 | 1.7% 561 |
2004 | 50.1% 16,400 | 48.9% 15,996 | 1.0% 345 |
2000 | 49.0% 14,490 | 45.5% 13,469 | 5.5% 1,634 |
1996 | 42.0% 10,760 | 47.4% 12,140 | 10.6% 2,736 |
1992 | 36.5% 10,271 | 37.2% 10,452 | 26.3% 7,390 |
1988 | 57.2% 12,949 | 42.8% 9,672 | 0.0% 0 |
1984 | 62.3% 11,922 | 37.7% 7,200 | 0.0% 0 |
1980 | 51.1% 8,635 | 37.0% 6,245 | 11.9% 2,013 |
1976 | 56.9% 8,324 | 41.6% 6,095 | 1.5% 223 |
1968 | 51.3% 3,165 | 45.0% 2,772 | 3.7% 230 |
1964 | 43.3% 1,500 | 56.6% 1,960 | 0.1% 3 |
Education
Burnsville Independent School District 191, which includes Burnsville as well as parts of neighboring cities Savage and Eagan, has:
Two 9–12 high schools:
- Burnsville High School
- Cedar Alternative High School
Three 6–8
- Eagle Ridge Middle School (in Savage)
- John Metcalf Middle School (Closed in 2020) [56]
- Joseph Nicollet Middle School
Ten K-5 elementary schools:
- Harriet Bishop (in Savage)
- Edward D. Neill
- Gideon Pond
- Hidden Valley (in Savage)
- Marion W. Savage (in Savage)
- Rahn (in Eagan)
- Sioux Trail
- Sky Oaks
- Vista View
- William Byrne
About 20% of Burnsville's students attend Independent School District 196 schools; they include Apple Valley High School and Valley Middle School in Apple Valley; and Echo Park Elementary School in Burnsville.
About 10% of Burnsville's students attend Independent School District 194 schools; they include Lakeville North High School, Kenwood Trail Middle School, and Orchard Lake Elementary, all of which are in Lakeville.
Good Shepherd Lutheran School is a Pre-K-8 Christian school of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Burnsville.[57]
Infrastructure
split-level houses were due to Interstate 35W's completion in the 1960s which came earlier than most of the metro highways. Burnsville through the 1990s filled in the last of its available land with upscale housing stock and apartment complexes. In the 2000s Burnsville went under redevelopment activity, producing many four-story residential buildings. The "Heart of the City", a new downtown area, contains mixed-use residential and retail buildings. This has produced a diverse range of housing types from single-family homes to high-density condominiums. Since the city was developed in a sprawl fashion, new and old buildings sit between each other. The original industrial area along the Minnesota River is mostly abandoned, and also contains a sealed land-fill site. The new industrial area in the west side of the city contains manufacturing and corporate headquarters. West of the new downtown area are new office buildings.
Since 2005, Burnsville has cut its carbon emissions by almost 30%, through changes such as energy efficiency, composting to reduce methane emissions from landfills, and improvements to water infrastructure.[58] TransportationCounty Road 42 and State Highway 13 both provide east–west access to the western suburb of Savage and the eastern suburbs of Eagan and Apple Valley. Major interior arteries include Nicollet Avenue, McAndrews Road (East 138th Street), County Road 5 (Kenwood Trail), County Road 11, Portland Avenue, Southcross Drive, and Lac Lavon Drive. The Dan Patch Corridor is planned to serve Burnsville.
UtilitiesBurnsville Public Works draws water from wells and not the Minnesota River, supplying all homes and businesses. Electricity is provided by Dakota Electric Association, Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative and Xcel Energy. Natural gas is provided by Centerpoint Minnegasco. Telephone and internet services are provided by Frontier Communications and Qwest.[60] Fairview Ridges Hospital located south of City Hall along Nicollet Avenue is a 24-hour facility, touting the most advanced emergency, surgery, orthopedic and childcare south of the river. The hospital is within The Ridges campus which includes various medical clinics, services, centers and institutes.[61] Nearby is a Park Nicollet Health Services. Law enforcementBurnsville's law enforcement is provided by the Burnsville Police Department,[62] which formed in July 1964 soon after the town's incorporation. The department consists of 75 sworn officers and 19 civilian personnel. The current chief of police, as of May 10, 2019, is Tanya Schwartz.[63] The department was the first in the state of Minnesota to introduce body-worn cameras to its officers in the summer of 2010 and rolled them out to all officers by the end of 2011.[64] The department's current police station was built in 1988 and is located at 100 Civic Center Parkway. The station underwent a major $13.3 million renovation starting in summer 2017, and the newly renovated station was re-opened in February 2018.[65] Notable people
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