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City in Minnesota, United States

Eden Prairie is a city 12 mile (19 km) southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Hennepin County and the 16th largest city in the State of Minnesota, United States. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 64,198. The city is adjacent to the north bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from its confluence with the Mississippi River. Set in the Twin Cities' outer suburbs, Eden Prairie is part of the southwest portion of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the 16th largest metropolitan area in the United States, with approximately 3.7 million residents. The community was designed as a mixed income city model, and is home to 7,213 commercial firms, including the headquarters of SuperValu, C. H. Robinson Worldwide, Winnebago Industries, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Lifetouch Inc., SABIS, and MTS Systems Corporation. It contains the Eden Prairie Center mall and is the hub of SouthWest Transit, providing public transportation to three adjacent suburbs. The television stations KMSP and WFTC are based in Eden Prairie. The nonprofit news organization Eden Prairie Local News (EPLN) also serves the community. The area features numerous municipal and regional parks, conservation areas, multi purpose trails, and recreational facilities. There are more than 170 mile (274 km) of multi use trails, of parks, and of open space. Popular recreational areas include Staring Lake, Lake Riley, Purgatory Creek, Miller Park, Round Lake, and the Minnesota River Bluffs Regional Trail. Eden Prairie has been featured as one of Money magazine's "Best Places to Live" in America several times since 2006. It earned first place in the 2010 survey and second place in 2016.

For most of its existence, Eden Prairie was a slow growing, pastoral village on the far southwest fringes of the Twin Cities. Between 1880 and 1960, Eden Prairie's population only grew from about 739 to 2,000. Native Americans were the first to live in the area. Originally, the land was part of the Great Dakota Nation, but when the Ojibwe arrived from the Great Lakes region, the tribes began to clash over the land. The Ojibwe were armed with knives and guns traded to them by white settlers and fur traders, and after years of bloody warfare the Ojibwe had forced the Dakota to give up all their land east of the Mississippi River, and north of the Crow Wing River, land that did not include what is now Eden Prairie. In 1853, John H. McKenzie and Minnesota Territory secretary Alexander Wilkins platted the town of Hennepin along the Minnesota River in what is now southeastern Eden Prairie. According to area historian Helen Holden Anderson, topographic disadvantages for the transport of agricultural goods caused Hennepin to be eclipsed by other towns in the region, and the town soon vanished from maps. On May 25, 1858, a battle was fought between the Dakota and the Ojibwe in the southern part of Eden Prairie, just north of the Minnesota River, an area known as Murphy's Ferry. The Ojibwe wished to "avenge the murder" of one of their people by the Dakota the previous fall. The Ojibwe had 200 warriors and the Dakota somewhere between 60 and 70, but the Dakota proved victorious, wounding the young Ojibwe chief. Manuscripts indicate that Cummins was an avid and respected horticulturist, scientist, and farmer; he used his farmland to experiment with different strains of apples and grapes to try to find one that could withstand the harsh climate in Minnesota. The Cummins family sold this property to the Phipps family in 1908.

Eden Prairie is about 11 mile (18 km) southwest of Minneapolis along the northern side of the Minnesota River. Interstate 494, U. S. Highways 169 and 212, and Minnesota State Highway 5 are four of the city's main routes. Eden Prairie's land consists of rolling hills and bluffs overlooking the Minnesota River, with zones of prairie and mixed (primarily deciduous) forests. Eden Prairie has parks, such as Staring Lake Park and Bryant Lakes Regional Park, with trails for running and biking. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 35.19 square miles (91 km2), of which 32.45 square miles (84 km2) is land and 2.74 square miles (7 km2) is water.

In 2008, Eden Prairie raised roughly $500,000 from the community to build a veterans memorial. The memorial has two components, service to country and world peace. It was constructed in Purgatory Creek Park near the intersection of Technology Drive and Prairie Center Drive. Sculptor Neil Brodin designed and constructed two bronze sculptures. The service to country sculpture represents a wounded airman carried over the shoulders of a soldier in the battlefield. The world peace sculpture depicts a woman service member touching a globe, honoring women who have served. Community members could purchase a place on the memorial for the names of loved ones who served in any branch of the U. S. service in any war or conflict. Minnesota based Cold Spring Granite provided Mesabi black granite for the memorial's walls.

The 2017 USA Rink Bandy League Cannon Cup Playoffs took place at the Eden Prairie Rinks.

Eden Prairie is in Minnesota's 3rd congressional district, represented by Dean Phillips, a Democrat. City council officials include Mayor Ron Case and council members Mark Freiberg, Kathy Nelson, PG Narayanan and Lisa Toomey. The city manager is Rick Getschow. + 2020 Precinct Results Spreadsheet+ 2016 Precinct Results Spreadsheet Year Republican Democratic Third parties202036.0% 14,24161.7% 24,3762.3% 896201638.5% 13,95452.6% 19,0608.8% 3,191

The Eden Prairie Police Department has a chief, a captain, three lieutenants, about 66 sworn law enforcement officers, and 30 civilian staff. It has three divisions: Patrol, Investigations and Support. The Patrol Division includes SWAT and police dog elements.

The first school in Eden Prairie was Anderson School, a schoolhouse near a farm. At the time of its construction, it was in the center of the city. The former Eden Prairie Consolidated School, built in 1924, is now the school district Administration Building and is next to Central Middle School. Eden Prairie operates eight K 12 schools, six elementary (PreK 5) schools (including one Spanish immersion), one middle school (6 8), and one high school (9 12). Eden Prairie High School is Minnesota's fifth largest high school, with about 2,600 students, and is near the grounds of Round Lake Park and the Eden Prairie Community Center.

As of the 2017–18 school year, Eden Prairie is home to one charter school, the Performing Institute of Minnesota Arts High School.

Eden Prairie has one private school, The International School of Minnesota, which offers a private, non denominational, college preparatory education for students from preschool through grade 12. The school, founded in 1985, features non selective admissions and year round open enrollment, daily world language education beginning in preschool, and 19 AP courses at the upper school level. The student body consists of 85% local residents and 15% international students.

There is one technical college campus in Eden Prairie. Hennepin Technical College (whose main campus is in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) has an enrollment of roughly 7,000 full and part time students. It offers day and night classes.

The city has its own police department.

The city's regional shopping mall, Eden Prairie Center, stood in for the Mall of America in the 1997 comic mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous. Two years earlier, the mall served as the principal filming location of Kevin Smith's Mallrats. The railroad overpass that lent its name to the 1990 Prince album Graffiti Bridge passed over Valley View Road in the city's northwestern quadrant. It was torn down in 1991 to make way for an expansion of the road and has since been replaced with a bridge carrying the Minnesota River Bluffs LRT rail to trail recreational path. Prince also owned a warehouse on Flying Cloud Drive to rehearse and record music; today, the site is occupied by TGK Automotive. The cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 was filmed out of an industrial park in Eden Prairie for much of its original run.