Prior Lake, Minnesota Prior Lake, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Prior Lakewithin Scott County, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Prior Lake Website City of Prior Lake Prior Lake is a town/city 20 miles (32 km) southwest of downtown Minneapolis seated next to Savage and Shakopee in Scott County in the state of Minnesota.
Surrounding the shores of Lower and Upper Prior Lake, the town/city lies south of the Minnesota River in an region known as South of the River and establishes the urban fringe of the south-southwest portion of Minneapolis-St.
The populace of Prior Lake was 22,796 at the 2010 census. Prior Lake is one of the earliest metros/cities in the south metro area.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.33 square miles (47.47 km2); 15.44 square miles (39.99 km2) is territory and 2.89 square miles (7.49 km2) is water. Upper Prior Lake and Lower Prior Lake sit at the center of the town/city in an elongated shape towards the southwest to Spring Lake.
Prior Lake as a whole is the biggest lake in the southern metro area.
Prior Lake is positioned in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by John Kline, a Republican.
Portions of the Shakopee Mdwakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) tribal lands are inside the boundary of the City of Prior Lake as took in in 1972.
In a 1984 United States District Court ruling, the court affirmed that the municipal boundary of the City of Prior Lake did include the tribal lands in question.
The Court further clarified that the tribal inhabitants were thus inhabitants of the City of Prior Lake entitled to vote in municipal elections and to emergency police, fire, and rescue services.
In recent years, the SMSC has paid the City of Prior Lake for the cost of those emergency services on a voluntary basis. The Prior Lake American is the chief city newspaper.
The Savage Pacer is also common in Prior Lake.
Following the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre, journalist Elinor Burkett spent a year following students and teachers in Prior Lake High School.
The Mystic Showroom at the Mystic Lake Casino and Hotel in Prior Lake is an entertainment venue that incessantly features A-list musical and comedy performers.
The City of Prior Lake is inside the Prior Lake-Savage School District.
Prior Lake -Savage Area Schools (PLSAS) serve students in the communities of Prior Lake, Savage, Credit River Township, Spring Lake Township, Sand Creek Township, and Cedar Lake Township.
Prior Lake High School Prior Lake also has a private Roman Catholic parochial school, St.
Prior Lake also has a Lutheran church Missouri Synod parochial school, St.
Paul's Lutheran School Prior Lake, which serves kids from infant through undertaking 8.
Erik Westrum, 11-year experienced hockey player who now resides in Prior Lake.
Prior Lake (named after Charles Prior, of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St.
Paul barns ) is made up of two sections, Upper Prior Lake and Lower Prior Lake.
Upper before Lake flows Northerly, draining into the larger, Lower before Lake via a navigable channel that runs under Eagle Creek Avenue Scott County Highway 21.
Prior Lake is also prominent with snowmobilers and can be accessed using the Scott County Snowmobile Trail and other designated trails in the winter.
On April 10, 2009, zebra mussel shells were identified on the shore of Lower Prior Lake.
On April 14, the DNR confirmed that the Zebra Mussels were also in Upper Prior Lake.
The easterly portion of Spring Lake along Scott County Road 12 is also positioned inside the City of Prior Lake.
Spring Lake, with 290 acres, but being a several minutes further out from the metro region offers similar recreational opportunities as Upper Prior Lake with a more non-urban character and less traffic.
Spring Lake, being a several feet higher in elevation, flows north, into Upper Prior Lake via a non-navigable spillway and culvert under County Road 12.
City of Prior Lake.
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