Savage, Minnesota Savage, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Savagewithin Scott County, Minnesota Location of the town/city of Savage Website City of Savage Savage / s v d / is a suburban town/city 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Scott County in the State of Minnesota.
The town/city is situated on the south bank of the Minnesota River in a region generally referred to as South of the River, comprising the southern portion of Minneapolis-St.
Minnesota State Highway 13 and County Road 42 are two of the chief routes in Savage.
The landing point for Irish and Scottish immigrants in 1800, Savage has grown into a developing bedroom community, absorbing populace growth from Burnsville, its larger neighbor to the east.
Navy, Savage is now an industrialized manufacturing job center in the southern metro. The town/city is still mostly undeveloped, with sections of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge and Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve inside its borders.
Previously titled Hamilton after the town/city in Ontario, Canada, the town was retitled Savage after Marion Willis Savage who owned and trained the nationally jubilated racing horse Dan Patch. Dakota used the Minnesota River valley region including present day Savage for fish, game, boating and camping. In 1852, traders established a small post at the confluence of the Credit River and the Minnesota River.
Hamilton became the crossroads of trade and service in the region with the Credit River, Minnesota River, the valley's wagon and road trails, and the rail line. The postal service was later retitled Glendale Post Station in 1894 and formed Glendale Township to the west of Hamilton but was later merged with Savage in 1969. The roughly 17 blocks of the late 19th-century town remain as Savage's downtown along Highway 13 (Minnesota).
In 1902, Minneapolis entrepreneur Marion Willis Savage purchased racing horse Dan Patch and trained and raced him at his farm in the limits of Hamilton.
In 1904 the townspeople retitled the improve after Savage with the postal service officially confirming. In 1906 at the Minnesota State Fair, Dan Patch broke the world pacing mile record at 1 minute and 55 seconds, a record that remained unsurpassed for 54 years. During World War II, Savage was home to Camp Savage, a Military Intelligence School (MIS) language program, which taught Japanese to American military personnel.
To launch the ships, 14 miles (23 km) of the Minnesota River were dredged down to 9 feet (2.7 m) from Savage to the Mississippi River confluence.
Fleming brings empty grain barges into Port Cargill on the Minnesota River, a tributary of the Mississippi River.
Savage remained undeveloped in the post-war housing boom, isolated by the Minnesota River and without a direct interstate connection.
Lack of available assembly materials in the immediate region also inhibited development. By the 1980s, with the upgrade of Highway 13 and assembly of the Highway 169 Bloomington Ferry Bridge in 1996 athwart the Minnesota River, Savage's populace finally boomed as one of the burgeoning exurb metros/cities with low cost greenfield territory in the urbane area. The people of Savage reclaimed some of their history in the early 21st century, when it relocated the displaced Savage Depot assembled in 1880 by the then Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha Rail Road. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.45 square miles (42.61 km2); 15.63 square miles (40.48 km2) is territory and 0.82 square miles (2.12 km2) is water. The city's northern boundary is the Minnesota River; its tributary the Credit River flows northwardly through the city. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 82.6% White, 4.3% African American, 0.4% Native American, 8.4% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 1.4% from other competitions, and 2.6% from two or more competitions.
There were 9,116 homeholds of which 47.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 66.3% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 20.8% were non-families.
As of the census of 2000, there were 21,115 citizens , 6,807 homeholds, and 5,717 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 90.65% White, 1.59% African American, 0.25% Native American, 5.39% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.66% from other competitions, and 1.45% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 35.6% under the age of 18, 4.5% from 18 to 24, 43.5% from 25 to 44, 13.7% from 45 to 64, and 2.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
There are three school districts that serve the town/city of Savage.
There are three school districts in Savage. A portion of Savage is positioned in the Bloomington School District, but no homeholds are positioned inside this area. The students of the Prior Lake-Savage District will attend Prior Lake High School which is positioned in Savage.
The students of Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District will attend Burnsville High School which is positioned in Burnsville.
Savage is positioned in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by Jason Lewis, a Republican.
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