Editing Savage, Minnesota

{{Short description|City in Minnesota, United States}}
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|leader_name              = Christine Kelly <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofsavage.com/governments/city-governance/mayor-city-council|title=Mayor & City Council}}</ref>
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|leader_name1             = Bob Coughlen<br>Christine Kelly<br>Stacy Crakes<br>Matt Johnson
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'''Savage''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|æ|v|ɪ|dʒ}} {{respell|SAV|ij}}) is a [[suburb]]an city {{convert|15|mi|km}} south-southwest of downtown [[Minneapolis]] in [[Scott County, Minnesota|Scott County]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Minnesota]]. The city is on the south bank of the [[Minnesota River]] in a region commonly called ''South of the River,'' comprising the southern portion of [[Minneapolis-St. Paul]], the 16th-largest [[metropolitan area]] in the United States. The population of Savage was 32,465 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="2020 Census (City)">{{cite web|title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Savage_city,_Minnesota?g=160XX00US2758738 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=March 19, 2023}}</ref>

[[Minnesota State Highway 13]] and [[County Road 42 (Minnesota)|County Road 42]] are two of the main routes in Savage. [[Interstate 35W (Minnesota)|Interstate 35W]] and [[U.S. Highway 169]] are in close proximity to the city.

The landing point for Irish and Scottish immigrants in 1800, Savage has grown into a developing [[Commuter town|bedroom community]], absorbing population growth from [[Burnsville, Minnesota|Burnsville]], its larger neighbor to the east. Once a shipbuilding port for the U.S. Navy, Savage is now an industrial manufacturing job center in the southern metro.<ref name="coe">{{cite web|url=http://www.usace.army.mil/publications/eng-pamphlets/ep870-1-42/c-4-4.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617172141/http://www.usace.army.mil/publications/eng-pamphlets/ep870-1-42/c-4-4.pdf |archive-date=June 17, 2006 |url-status=dead |title=Mobilizing the Waterways: The Mississippi River Navigation System |author=Michael C. Robinson |publisher=U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |date=December 18, 1992|format=PDF}}</ref> The city is still relatively undeveloped, with sections of the [[Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge]] and [[Three Rivers Park District#Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve|Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve]] within its borders.

Previously named Hamilton after [[Hamilton, Ontario|the city]] in [[Ontario, Canada]], the town was renamed Savage after Marion Willis Savage, who owned and trained the nationally celebrated racing horse [[Dan Patch]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.savage.mn.us/CommunityProfile/index.html |title=Have you ever wondered where the City of Savage got its name? |publisher=City of Savage |year=2006}}</ref>

==History==
In the 17th century, [[France|French]] fur traders and explorers explored the Minnesota River valley. After 1750, [[Mdewakanton]] [[Sioux|Dakota]] then settled at Chief Black Dog's camp—near what is now Black Dog Lake in [[Burnsville, Minnesota|Burnsville]]. Dakota used the Minnesota River valley region including present-day Savage for fish, game, boating and camping.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mnrivervalley.com/stories/stories.php |title=Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway |publisher=Explore Minnesota! |year=2007}}</ref>

In 1852, traders established a small post at the confluence of the [[Credit River (Minnesota)|Credit River]] and the [[Minnesota River]]. William Byrne, who immigrated from [[County Kilkenny, Ireland]], to [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], in 1840, arrived in the area shortly after, via steamboat from [[Fort Snelling]]. Already established in business and trade, he and other Irish and Scottish settlers built Hamilton Landing, a port for boats, named after the city he immigrated to in Canada. The town incorporated in 1892 as the village of Hamilton.<ref name="cityofsavage">{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.savage.mn.us/CommunityProfile/History/index.html |title=History of Savage – The Beginning |publisher=The City of Savage |year=2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617214110/http://www.ci.savage.mn.us/CommunityProfile/History/index.html |archive-date=June 17, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/6038/History_of_Dakota_County_1881.html |title=Byrnesville? |publisher=Burnsville '76, A History |author=Richard Brooks |year=1976 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991002030846/http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/6038/History_of_Dakota_County_1881.html |archive-date=October 2, 1999}}</ref> Byrne later settled another nearby area which became Burnsville.

The Chicago & North Western (present day [[Union Pacific Railroad]]) railway line reached the site in 1865, and in 1866 the town gained a post office. 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.<ref name="danpatchsociety">{{cite web|url=http://www.danpatch.com/default.asp?id=4 |title=Savage Depot History |date=October 14, 2007 |publisher=Dan Patch Historical Society}}</ref>

The post office was later renamed Glendale Post Station in 1894 and formed Glendale Township to the west of Hamilton, but was later consolidated with Savage in 1969.<ref name="guidetosavage">{{cite web|url=http://www.swnewspapers.com/guidetosavage/index.php?s=67&ss=164&pt=edit&t=1&msid=6248 |title=Guide to Savage |publisher=Southwest Newspapers |year=2006}}</ref> 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. Dan Patch's notoriety grew as the horse began breaking speed records, and with it grew the town's prestige. In 1904 the townspeople renamed the community after Savage with the post office officially confirming.<ref name="onehorsetown">{{cite web|url=http://www.standardbredcanada.ca/trot/iss0806/tr0806dp.html |title=A One-Horse Town |publisher=Standardbred Canada |date=August 2006 |author=Nancy Huddleston}}</ref> 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.<ref name="guidetosavage" />

During [[World War II]], Savage was home to [[Camp Savage]], a Military Intelligence School (MIS) language program, which taught [[Japanese language|Japanese]] to American military personnel. Established in 1942, the school trained with [[nisei]]s and improved military intelligence of the time. It was later relocated to [[Fort Snelling]] and is commemorated at Normandale College's Japanese garden.<ref name="savageww2">{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.savage.mn.us/CommunityProfile/History/history_ww2.html |title=Savage in World War II |year=2006 |publisher=City of Savage |access-date=November 1, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924225344/http://www.ci.savage.mn.us/CommunityProfile/History/history_ww2.html |archive-date=September 24, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/6038/Camp_Savage.html |title=CAMP SAVAGE |author=Bea Nordstrom |year=1976 |publisher=Burnsville '76, A History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731193239/http://geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/6038/Camp_Savage.html |archive-date=July 31, 2009}}</ref> At about the same time, [[Cargill]], Incorporated, began building ships for the U.S. Navy at the newly constructed Meadowland Shipyard, renamed Port Cargill (former site of Hamilton Landing). To launch the ships, {{convert|14|mi|km}} of the Minnesota River were dredged down to {{convert|9|ft|m}} from Savage to the Mississippi River confluence. About 3,500 people were employed during peak production resulting in 18 auxiliary oil and gas carriers and 4 tugboats constructed. After World War II the port began shipping agricultural commodities.<ref name="coe" /><ref name="savageww2" />[[File:Towboat J.L. Fleming.JPG|thumb|The towboat ''J.L. Fleming'' brings empty grain barges into Port Cargill on the Minnesota River, a tributary of the Mississippi River.]]

Savage remained undeveloped in the postwar housing boom, isolated by the Minnesota River and without a direct interstate connection. Lack of available construction materials in the immediate area also prevented development.<ref name="savageww2" /> By the 1980s, with the upgrade of [[Minnesota State Highway 13|Highway 13]] and construction of the [[U.S. Route 169 in Minnesota|Highway 169]] [[Bloomington Ferry Bridge]] in 1996 across the Minnesota River, Savage finally boomed as one of the growing exurbs with low-cost greenfield land in the metropolitan area.<ref name="mpr">{{cite news|url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/06/20/census/ |title=Census says suburbs, exurbs are big population winners |author=Brandt Williams |publisher=Minnesota Public Radio |date=June 21, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.johnweeks.com/bridges/pages/mn06.html |title=Bloomington Ferry Bridge, Eden Prairie, MN |website=www.johnweeks.com}}</ref> The citizens of Savage reclaimed some of their history in the early 21st century, when it relocated the displaced Savage Depot built in 1880 by the then Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha Rail Road.<ref name="depot">{{cite news|url=http://www.danpatch.com/default.asp?id=6 |title=SAVAGE WANTS ITS PAST BACK |author=Shira Kantor |publisher=Copied from the Star Tribune by the Dan Patch Historical Society |date= April 6, 2005}}</ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has an area of {{convert|16.45|sqmi|sqkm|2}}; {{convert|15.63|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.82|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=November 13, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|archive-date=January 25, 2012}}</ref> The city's northern boundary is the [[Minnesota River]]; its tributary the [[Credit River (Minnesota)|Credit River]] flows northward through the city.<ref>{{cite book|title=Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer |year=1994 |publisher=[[DeLorme]] |location=Yarmouth, Maine |isbn=0-89933-222-6 |pages=33, 41}}</ref>

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1900= 179
|1910= 271
|1920= 206
|1930= 214
|1940= 222
|1950= 389
|1960= 1094
|1970= 3611
|1980= 3954
|1990= 9606
|2000= 21115
|2010= 26911
|2020= 32465
|estyear=2022
|estimate=32893
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2022">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-cities-and-towns.html |date=June 9, 2023|title=City and Town Population Totals: 2020-2022|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=June 9, 2023}}</ref>
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|author=United States Census Bureau|author-link=United States Census Bureau|access-date=February 12, 2014}}</ref><br>2020 Census<ref name="2020 Census (City)"/>
}}

===2010 census===
As of the [[census]] of 2010, there were 26,911 people, 9,116 households, and 7,222 families living in the city. The [[population density]] was {{convert|1721.8|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|1}}. There were 9,429 housing units at an average density of {{convert|603.3|/sqmi|/km2|1}}. The racial makeup of the city was 82.6% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 4.3% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.4% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 8.4% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.3% [[Race (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.4% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 2.6% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 3.4% of the population."

There were 9,116 households, of which 47.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.3% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 20.8% were non-families. 14.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.95 and the average family size was 3.31.

The median age in the city was 34.6 years. 31.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 6.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 30.8% were from 25 to 44; 26.1% were from 45 to 64; and 5.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 50.1% male and 49.9% female.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]] of 2000, there were 21,115 people, 6,807 households, and 5,717 families living in the city. The population density was {{convert|1,326.9|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.  There were 6,994 housing units at an average density of {{convert|439.5|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.  The racial makeup of the city was 90.65% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 1.59% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.25% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 5.39% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.02% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.66% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.45% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.63% of the population.

There were 6,807 households, out of which 56.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 74.0% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 6.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.0% were non-families. 11.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 3.10 and the average family size was 3.38.

In the city, the population 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.  The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.6 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $75,097, and the median income for a family was $79,244 (these figures had risen to $92,571 and $99,814 respectively as of a 2007 estimate). Males had a median income of $50,884 versus $35,824 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $26,858.  About 1.9% of families and 2.3% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 2.4% of those under age 18 and 3.0% of those age 65 or over.

==Schools==
Three school districts serve the city of Savage:<ref>{{cite web|title=Schools|url=http://www.cityofsavage.com/schoolsabout|access-date=March 17, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Districts|url=http://www.cityofsavage.com/images/docs/maps/school-districts.pdf|access-date=March 17, 2013}}</ref>

* Prior Lake-Savage District 719
* [[Burnsville–Eagan–Savage School District|Burnsville-Eagan-Savage District]] 191
* Shakopee School District 720

A portion of Savage is in the Bloomington School District, but no households are in this area.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fact Sheet|url=http://www.cityofsavage.com/fact-sheet|access-date=March 17, 2013}}</ref>

Students of the schools in the Prior Lake-Savage District that are in Savage (Redtail Ridge Elementary School and Glendale Elementary School) go on to [[Prior Lake High School]].

Students of the schools in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District that are in Savage (Harriet Bishop Elementary School, Hidden Valley Elementary School, and Eagle Ridge Middle School) go on to [[Burnsville High School]].

==Government and politics==
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The current mayor is Christine Kelly, and the city's four city council members are Stacy Crakes, Matthew Johnson, Bob Coughlen, and Megan Bergstrom. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Mayor & City Council {{!}} Savage, MN |url=https://www.cityofsavage.com/government/city-council |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=www.cityofsavage.com |language=en}}</ref>

Savage is in [[Minnesota's 2nd congressional district]], represented by [[Angie Craig]], a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]].<ref>[https://pollfinder.sos.mn.gov/docs/cong_2.pdf MN 2nd Congressional District Map]</ref> The city is in Minnesota Legislative District 55A, represented in the [[Minnesota House of Representatives]] by [[Jessica Hanson]] and in the [[Minnesota Senate]] by [[Lindsey Port]].<ref>[https://www.sos.state.mn.us/media/2593/us-representative-2-map-large.pdf MN State Representative Map For CD2]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cityofsavage.com Savage – City website]
* [http://www.priorlake-savage.k12.mn.us Prior Lake-Savage School District Website]
* [http://www.isd191.org Burnsville, Eagan, Savage School District Website]
* [http://www.savagepacer.com Savage Pacer]

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