Burnsville, Minnesota
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Burnsville | |
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![]() Grande Market Square at Nicollet Avenue and Burnsville Parkway is the cornerstone of the Heart of the City project. | |
Nickname: South of the River | |
![]() Location of the city of Burnsville within Dakota County, Minnesota | |
Coordinates: 44°46′04″N 93°16′39″W / 44.76778°N 93.27750°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Minnesota |
County | Dakota |
Founded | 1855 |
Established | 1858 |
Incorporated | 1964 |
Government | |
• Type | Mayor-council government – Executive form |
• Mayor | Elizabeth B. Kautz |
• City Manager | Heather Johnston |
Area | |
• City | 26.87 sq mi (69.59 km2) |
• Land | 24.83 sq mi (64.31 km2) |
• Water | 2.04 sq mi (5.28 km2) |
Elevation | 971 ft (297 m) |
Population | |
• City | 60,306 |
• Estimate (2019)[3] | 61,339 |
• Rank | US: 588th MN: 15th |
• Density | 2,470.16/sq mi (953.75/km2) |
• Metro | 3,524,583 (US: 16th) |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
ZIP codes | 55306, 55337 |
Area code | 952 |
FIPS code | 27-08794 |
GNIS feature ID | 0640669[4] |
Website | City of Burnsville |
Burnsville (/ˈbɜːrnzvɪl/) is a city 15 miles (24 km) south of downtown Minneapolis in Dakota County in the State of Minnesota. The city lies on 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 fifteenth largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.6 million residents. According to the 2010 census, the population is 60,306.
Burnsville has many attractions, including its regional mall, Burnsville Center. The city is also a recreational attraction with Alimagnet Dog Park, a section of Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve and 310-foot (94 m) vertical ski peak Buck Hill. Minnesota River wildlife is protected by the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
Originally a rural Irish farming community, Burnsville became the tenth largest city in Minnesota in the 2000 Census following the construction of Interstate 35. Currently the ninth largest suburb in the metro area and a bedroom community of both Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the city was fully built by the late 2000s. Burnsville's downtown area is called Heart of the City with urban-style retail and condominiums.[5] The Burnsville Transit Station serves as the hub and headquarters of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority, providing regional bus service to five other suburbs.
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.[6]
History
The Mdewakanton Dakota were the earliest inhabitants who came through the Minnesota River, following water fowl and game animals.[7] As part of the greater migration of the Mdewakanton from their ancestral area around Mille Lacs Lake to the river confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, Chief Black Dog, around 1750, established his band at a permanent village at the isthmus between Black Dog Lake (from which is named after him) and the Minnesota River, near the present site of the Black Dog Power Plant.[7] The permanent camp was reported by early settlers as being inhabited by over 250 Dakota. At the south end of Burnsville, Crystal Lake, recorded as "Minne Elk" was utilized for abundant fish, leisure and burial.[8] It was also a gathering spot where Dakota watched deer or bucks drink at the lake from the top of Buck Hill, in which was named by early settlers who witnessed this activity.[7] Three large burial mounds were discovered after European settlement.[9][10]
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The Dakota nation ceded land in 1851 and many relocated to Chief Shakopee's village—the current Shakopee-Mdewakanton Indian Reservation in nearby Prior Lake.[11] The first European settlers were Irish, Scottish and Norwegian farmers who came upriver from Saint Paul.[12] One of these Irish settlers was William Byrne, who had immigrated in 1840 from County Kilkenny, Ireland to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In 1855, he settled at the present day junction of County Road 34 and Judicial Road near the Scott County line, just southeast of old downtown Savage. He subsequently donated land there for a church, school, and a cemetery as well as serving Town Chairman. In 1858, the Dakota County Board authorized Byrnsville Township in the north by the Minnesota River, east by Eagan and Apple Valley, south by Lakeville, and west by Scott County. There is some ambiguity of if the name actually derived from William Byrne since there were people with the surname "Burns" living in the area (a Scottish variant).[13] The Town Clerk recorded variations between "Burns" and "Byrnes" but at the 1960s city incorporation, the "Burnsville" spelling prevailed. The school district was organized during this time as well. Burnsville originally comprised the present-day downtown of Savage (then known as Hamilton) until county border revisions by the legislature. The Irish and Scottish settlers of this time left their names on many area roads and parks and their religion in Presbyterian, Protestant, and Catholic churches.[13]
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In the 19th century, Burnsville was considered a long distance 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' first north south highway to the rural communities of southern Minnesota. Later the bridge, upgraded several times, would be 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 people. 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 post-war 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 Bloomington.[16] Mass housing development followed and a former mayor, Connie Morrison said city managers had foresight in producing shopping nodes in walking distance of most homes.[9] The city became a regional pull when Burnsville Center opened in 1977 and produced the heavily traveled retail strip on County Road 42.[17] The next decades leading to the 21st century dealt with managing Burnsville's increasing population and growth which led to providing alternative transportation options, diverse housing projects, and ultimately the "Heart of the City" project. The city approached build-out in the late 1990s and changed focus from new development to redevelopment and rehabilitation of existing structures.[18]
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.[6]
Geography
Fed by receding glaciers and Lake Agassiz 12,000 years ago, the Glacial River Warren carved today's Minnesota River valley. On the northern border of Burnsville, 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 United States Census Bureau, the city has a total 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 35 splits into Interstate Highways 35W and 35E within the city. Other routes in the city include Minnesota Highway 13 and County Road 42.
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% | |
2019 (est.) | 61,339 | [3] | 1.7% |
U.S. Decennial Census[23] 2018 Estimate[24] |
The earliest settlers were roughly 250 Mdewakanton Dakota who lived permanently at Black Dog camp.[7] Starting in the 1850s, Old stock Americans from the east coast and French Canadians moved into eastern Dakota County near Saint Paul. A decade later, major European immigration began with settlers from Ireland, Scotland, and Great Britain. By the 1900s there were a few Scandinavians from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark but these ethnic groups were mostly concentrated towards Lakeville. Those from Germany and Eastern Europe would gradually join the minority from the packing jobs in nearby South St. Paul. Irish descendants maintained the majority through the early 1950s owing to the town's origin, overall land ownership, and the practice of marrying within ethnic clans.[25] The early 20th century's permanent population remained very low as the Minnesota River's lack of bridges and streetcar connection isolated the area from development, preventing people from moving south of the river. The lake-side houses around Crystal Lake and Orchard Lake however attracted several various immigrant and first-generation wealthier individuals to temporarily settle or own land in the town limits.
In 1960, the U.S. Census Bureau recorded the population of Byrnesville Township at 2,716 people and soon after, the postwar growth was instantaneous, filling the city with second to third generation European descendants from Minneapolis; more American than ethnic. From 1960 to 1970, the total population accelerated to nearly 20,000 people and by the year 2000, the population arrived at roughly 60,000 people.
2010 census
As of the census[2] of 2010, there were 60,306 people, 24,283 households, and 15,656 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,421.0 inhabitants per square mile (934.8/km2). There were 25,759 housing units at an average density of 1,034.1 per square mile (399.3/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 77.5% White, 10.0% African American, 0.4% Native American, 5.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 3.5% from other races, and 3.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.9% of the population.
There were 24,283 households, of which 32.1% had children under the age of 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 years of age 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 years. 110% of residents were under the age of 18; 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 28.6% were from 25 to 44; 26.7% were from 45 to 64; and 11.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.7% male and 51.3% female.
Economy
Burnsville's biggest employer is its own school district, Independent School District 191, followed by Fairview Ridges Hospital, UTAS Sensor Systems, Northern Tool + Equipment, Pepsi-Cola Bottling, YRC, Mackin Educational Resources, Cub Foods, Frontier Communications, and AMS Holding.[26] Manufacturing is the second largest industry. Many employers, including Northern Tool + Equipment, Abdallah Candies, and UTC Aerospace Systems, are in the industrial areas in the southwest and the north, with corporate headquarters and modern warehouses in services and manufacturing. Service firms such as internet utilities, news, and real estate are mostly located throughout the north along Highway 13.
Retail shopping is located 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. Burnsville Center as the anchor of the strip is a 1,275,703-square-foot (118,516.7 m2) regional mall.
Burnsville has a 15–30 minute commute vicinity to many regional attractions and services such as the Mall of America, Valleyfair Amusement Park, Buck Hill Ski Area, the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, downtown Saint Paul and downtown Minneapolis. Adjacent cities of Apple Valley, Bloomington, Eagan, Lakeville, and Savage provide even more nearby shopping hubs, lakes and parks.
Heart of the City
Burnsville's "Heart of the City" project is a downtown development policy driven by smart growth and new urbanism. The redevelopment encompasses 54 acres (220,000 m2) centrally located in Burnsville, a few miles south of the Minnesota River.
The 1150 seat post-modern style Burnsville Performing Arts Center, now The Ames Performing Arts Center, opened in January 2009. Its approval in 2007 was controversial.[27] Grande Market Square at Nicollet Avenue and Burnsville Parkway is the cornerstone of the Heart of the City project, and features a Doron Jensen-signature restaurant.
Arts and culture
The Ames Performing Arts Center is located at 12600 Nicollet Avenue in the Heart of the City. The center has two theatres, a 1000-seat Proscenium Stage, and an art gallery.[28]
The Garage located near City Hall is a non-profit music club and teen center which has attracted music acts nationally and internationally.[29]
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[30] tradition, the event now includes a large parade, music concerts, and fireworks. In 2004, the namesake event of this celebration, a fire truck parade, was cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest of its kind in the world, at that time.[31][32]
Parks and recreation
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The city contains 1,800 acres (7.3 km2) of parkland spread 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 north border with the Minnesota River is within the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Crystal Lake is the city's major recreation lake allowing boating, fishing, jet-skiing, and swimming. The Burnsville Skate Park is a free facility during summer hours. The Burnsville Ice Center has two large professional ice rinks.
The Burnsville Athletic Club is an all-volunteer youth sports league. It has an annual participation of nearly 1,300 players in the baseball leagues for grades K-12, 80–90 boys basketball teams in grades 3–12, and over 400 players 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.
The city of Burnsville is home to over 58 playgrounds and roughly 11 recreational lakes. The most heavily used of the lakes are Keller Lake, Crystal Lake, Kruse Lake, and Aligmanet Lake (Which is split with neighbor Apple Valley, MN).[33]
Government
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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 Mayorship term was changed from two to four years in 2000. Administrative duties including employment of the city are in charge of the City Manager. 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 B. Kautz has been mayor since 1995, elected after serving a two years on the Burnsville City Council where she replaced Ken Wolf (R) who was elected to the State House of Representatives in District 41B. Having been re-elected eight times, she has served for over 23 years.[34] Kautz's framework of progressive activity and financial management has been studied and may explain her consecutive re-elections, or it could be that she always seems to run unopposed.[35] She cites in her biography, that she has reduced Burnsville's debt, increased infrastructure improvement, maintained the property tax scheduled decrease, established a new youth center, and oversaw the establishment of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority.[34][36]
One of her major redevelopment projects has been the Burnsville Heart of the City, identified through community visioning as the intersecting commercial areas near Burnsville Parkway and Nicollet Avenue.[34] In her winning 2008 re-election, the 1,000 seat regional performing arts center component was cited by her opponent as misuse of public funds toward arts.[37]
The city is situated in both Minnesota's 51st Senate District, and Minnesota's 56th Senate District. Currently, the state senators are Jim Carlson (DFL), District 51, and Dan Hall (GOP), District 56. The state representatives are Sandra Masin (DFL), 51A, Hunter Cantrell (DFL), 56A, and Alice Mann (DFL), 56B.
Burnsville is located in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by Angie Craig, a Democrat.
Education
Burnsville Independent School District 191, which includes Burnsville as well as parts of neighboring cities Savage and Eagan, currently has:
Two 9–12 high schools:
Three 6–8 middle schools:
- Eagle Ridge Middle School (located in Savage)
- John Metcalf Middle School
- Joseph Nicollet Middle School
Ten K-5 elementary schools:
- Harriet Bishop (located in Savage)
- Edward D. Neill
- Gideon Pond
- Hidden Valley (located in Savage)
- Marion W. Savage (located in Savage)
- Rahn
- Sioux Trail
- Sky Oaks
- Vista View
- William Byrne
About 20.0% 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 10.0% 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.
Infrastructure
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Burnsville is a fully developed suburban bedroom community. Large pockets of ramblers and 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.[38]
Transportation
Minnesota Valley Transit Authority provides regional bus service between many transit hubs within the city, south of the river, and to destinations such as the Mall of America, Downtown Minneapolis, and Southdale Mall.[39] Most residents commute and move around by car. Burnsville contains the Interstate Highway 35 split with Interstate Highway 35W leading to downtown Minneapolis and Interstate Highway 35E to downtown St. Paul. The major on and off-ramps for I-35W are located at Burnsville Parkway, County Road 42, and State Highway 13. County 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.
Utilities
Burnsville 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.[40]
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.[41] Nearby is a Park Nicollet Health Services.
Law enforcement
Burnsville's law enforcement is provided by the Burnsville Police Department,[42] 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.[43] 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.[44] 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.[45]
Notable people
- Cole Aldrich, former basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves was born in Burnsville, but moved to Bloomington at a young age.
- Brock Boeser, professional hockey player, who plays for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League
- J.T. Brown, professional hockey player, who plays for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League
- Dropping Daylight, music band
- Breanne Düren, singer/songwriter, touring keyboardist for Owl City.
- Sara Groves, contemporary Christian music artist
- Gao Hong, Chinese pipa player
- Ernie Hudson, actor
- Doron Jensen, Founder of Timber Lodge Steakhouse
- Kristina Koznick, former World Cup ski racer
- David Knutson, Minnesota state senator, lawyer, and judge
- Harold A. Knutson, Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
- M.A. Larson, screenwriter & author
- Trevor Laws, former American football defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles and St. Louis Rams[46]
- Mike Lundin, American professional ice hockey player, who formerly played for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL)[47]
- Todd Okerlund, former New York Islander hockey player, son of “Mean” Gene Okerlund
- Kirsten Olson, ice skater & actress
- Laura Osnes, Broadway singer & actress, born in Burnsville and raised in Eagan
- Melissa Peterman, actress
- Tabitha Peterson, curler
- James Ruffin, defensive lineman
- Randy Scheunemann, Washington lobbyist & John McCain Presidential adviser
- Sing It Loud, music band
- Lindsey Vonn (née Kildow), U.S. Ski Team alpine ski racer, 2008 World Cup overall champion
- Nicolas Eugene Walsh, Roman Catholic bishop
- Cedric Yarbrough, actor
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