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Pine City
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city and seat Pine County, Minnesota, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Pine
- Incorporated
- February 14, 1881
- Mayor
- Kent Bombard
- City council
- Kyle Palmer, Gina Pettie, Dan Swanson, David Hill
- Total
- 4.24 sq mi (10.98 km )
- Land
- 3.83 sq mi (9.93 km )
- Water
- 0.40 sq mi (1.04 km )
- Elevation
- 945 ft (288 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 3,736
- Density
- 816.0/sq mi (315.07/km )
- Demonym
- Pine Citian
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 27-51064
- Website
- pinecitymn .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Pine City is a city in and the county seat of Pine County, in east central Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,130 at the 2020 census. Part of the city is on the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation. Founded as a railway town, it soon became a logging community and the surrounding lakes made it a resort town. Today, it is in part a commuter town for people working in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pine City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.