22 Facts About Burnsville Minnesota

Burnsville Minnesota stands on land that once contained a village of Mdewakanton Dakota.

Name Burnsville Minnesota is attributed to an early Irish settler and land owner, William Byrne.

Burnsville Minnesota's surname was recorded as "Burns" and was never corrected.

Burnsville Minnesota subsequently donated land there for a church, school, and a cemetery, and served as town chairman.

Burnsville Minnesota originally comprised the present-day downtown of Savage until county border revisions by the legislature.

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Rail access came in 1864 and Burnsville Minnesota became a resort town, with cottages along Crystal Lake as well as Orchard Lake and Marion Lake in nearby Lakeville.

In 1950, just before the World War II postwar housing boom, Burnsville Minnesota was still a quiet township with a population of 583.

The city became a regional pull when Burnsville Minnesota Center opened in 1977 and produced the heavily traveled retail strip on County Road 42.

The next decades dealt with managing Burnsville Minnesota's increasing population and growth which led to providing alternative transportation options, diverse housing projects, and ultimately the "Heart of the City" project.

Burnsville contains the Black Dog and Lower Minnesota River Watershed Districts, managed by the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District.

Burnsville Minnesota is a 15- to 30-minute drive from 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.

Burnsville Minnesota's "Heart of the City" project is a downtown development policy driven by smart growth and new urbanism.

Grande Market Square at Nicollet Avenue and Burnsville Minnesota Parkway is the cornerstone of the Heart of the City project, and features a Doron Jensen-signature restaurant.

Burnsville's border with the Minnesota River is within the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

Burnsville Minnesota Skate Park is a free facility during summer hours.

Burnsville Minnesota has over 58 playgrounds and roughly 11 recreational lakes.

In mid-2021, after finding numerous large goldfish in Keller Lake, Burnsville warned residents against public goldfish release, citing ecological concerns .

Burnsville Minnesota's cites in her biography that she has reduced Burnsville's debt, increased infrastructure improvement, maintained the scheduled property tax decrease, established a new youth center, and overseen the establishment of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority.

Burnsville Minnesota is represented in the State Senate by Jim Carlson and Lindsey Port, and in the State House by Sandra Masin, Jessica Hanson, and Kaela Berg .

The original industrial area along the Burnsville Minnesota River is mostly abandoned, and contains a sealed land-fill site.

Burnsville Minnesota contains the Interstate Highway 35 split with Interstate Highway 35W leading to downtown Minneapolis and Interstate Highway 35E to downtown St Paul.

The department was the first in the state of Burnsville 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.