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Red Wing
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city in Minnesota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Goodhue
- Named after
- Chief Red Wing
- Type
- Mayor – Council
- Mayor
- Mike Wilson
- Total
- 41.41 sq mi (107.26 km )
- Land
- 34.83 sq mi (90.20 km )
- Water
- 6.59 sq mi (17.06 km )
- Elevation
- 735 ft (224 m)
- Density
- 475.1/sq mi (183.45/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 27-53620
- Gnis id
- 0649885
- Website
- www .redwingmn .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Red Wing is a city in and the county seat of Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, along the upper Mississippi River. The population was 16,547 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
The federal government established a Mdewakanton Sioux Indian reservation—now Prairie Island Indian Community—in 1936 along the Mississippi River. The city of Red Wing developed around it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Red Wing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.