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Burnsville
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city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Dakota
- Type
- Mayor-council government – Executive form
- Mayor
- Elizabeth Kautz
- City manager
- Gregg Lindberg
- City
- 26.98 sq mi (69.89 km )
- Land
- 24.94 sq mi (64.59 km )
- Water
- 2.05 sq mi (5.30 km )
- Elevation
- 974 ft (297 m)
- Estimate 2022
- 63,936
- Rank
- US: 603rd, MN: 14th
- Density
- 2,579.2/sq mi (995.82/km )
- Metro
- 3,693,729 (US: 16th )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 55306, 55337
- Fips code
- 27-08794
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burnsville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.