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St. Louis County is a
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in the Arrowhead Region of
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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 200,231. Its
county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
is
Duluth Duluth ( ) is a Port, port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County, Minnesota, St. Louis County. Located on Lake Superior in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region, the city is a hub for cargo shipping. The population ...
. It is the largest
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in Minnesota by land area, and the largest in the United States by total area east of the
Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...
. St. Louis County is included in the Duluth, MN–Superior, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. Major industries include
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production and
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. Open pit mining of taconite and processing it into high grade
iron ore Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from dark grey, bright yellow, or deep purple to rusty red. The iron is usually found in the f ...
remains an important part of the economy of the Iron Range and is directly tied to shipping in the twin ports of Duluth and Superior. Parts of the federally recognized Bois Forte and Fond du Lac Indian reservations are in the county.


History

This area was long inhabited by Algonquian-speaking tribes: the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Ottawa and Potawatomi peoples were loosely affiliated in the
Council of Three Fires The Council of Three Fires (in , also known as the People of the Three Fires; the Three Fires Confederacy; or the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians) is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), O ...
. As American settlers entered the territory, the Native Americans were pushed to outer areas. The Minnesota Legislature established St. Louis County on February 20, 1855, as ''Doty County,'' and changed its name to ''Newton County'' on March 3, 1855. It originally consisted of the area east and south of the St. Louis River, while the area east of the Vermilion River and north of the St. Louis River was part of Superior County. Superior County was renamed St. Louis County. On March 1, 1856, that St. Louis County was renamed as Lake County. Newton County was renamed as St. Louis County and had that eastern area added to it; it was also expanded westward by incorporating parts of Itasca County, which then also included most of Carlton County. On May 23, 1857, St. Louis County took its current shape when Carlton County was formed from parts of St. Louis and
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counties.


Geography

According to the
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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (8.9%) is water. It is the largest county in Minnesota and the largest (by total area) in the United States east of the Mississippi River. St. Louis County is the only county in the United States which has a coastline and borders both another country and another state. Voyageurs National Park, established in 1975, is located in its northwestern corner, on the south shore of
Rainy Lake Rainy Lake ( French: '; Ojibwe: ') is a freshwater lake with a surface area of that straddles the border between the United States and Canada. The Rainy River issues from the west side of the lake. Today it is harnessed to make hydroelectricit ...
on the Canada–US border; it is popular with water enthusiasts and fishers. The county includes parts of
Superior National Forest The Superior National Forest, part of the United States National Forest system, is located in the Arrowhead Region of the U.S. state, state of Minnesota between the Canada–United States border and the North Shore (Lake Superior), north shore o ...
, established in 1909, and the
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or BWCA) comprises of pristine forests, glacial lakes, and streams in the Superior National Forest. Located entirely within the U.S. state of Minnesota at the Boundary Waters, the wilderness are ...
on the border, established in 1978. The BWCAW is a wilderness area designated for fishing, camping, hiking, and canoeing, and is one of the most visited wilderness areas in the United States. St. Louis County has more than 500 lakes. The largest lakes are
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and
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. The "Hill of Three Waters" on the
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lies northeast of Hibbing. Rainfall on this hill runs to three watersheds:
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to the north, the
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to the east (via
Lake Superior Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater. Lake Michigan–Huron has a larger combined surface area than Superior, but is normally considered tw ...
), or the
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to the south and west (via the Mississippi River). The county is drained by the
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,
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, and other rivers.
Duluth Duluth ( ) is a Port, port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County, Minnesota, St. Louis County. Located on Lake Superior in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region, the city is a hub for cargo shipping. The population ...
on Lake Superior is one of the most important fresh-water ports in the United States. The county encompasses part of the Iron Range. It has had a significant taconite mining industry, with active mines located in Hibbing, Mountain Iron, Eveleth, Virginia, and Babbitt, in addition to Keewatin in Itasca County.


Major highways

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* Interstate 535 – John Blatnik Bridge * U.S. Highway 2 * U.S. Highway 53 * U.S. Highway 169 * Minnesota State Highway 1 *
Minnesota State Highway 23 Minnesota State Highway 23 (MN 23) is a state highway that stretches from southwestern to northeastern Minnesota. At in length, it is the second longest state route in Minnesota, after MN 1. This route, signed east–west, runs roug ...
* Minnesota State Highway 33 * Minnesota State Highway 37 * Minnesota State Highway 39 – McCuen Street * Minnesota State Highway 61 – North Shore * Minnesota State Highway 73 * Minnesota State Highway 135 * Minnesota State Highway 169 * Minnesota State Highway 194 * Minnesota State Highway 210 * St. Louis County Road 4 - Rice Lake Road * St. Louis County Road 13 – Midway Road


Adjacent counties

* Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada (north) * Lake County (east) *
Douglas County, Wisconsin Douglas County is a county in the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,295 Its county seat is Superior. Douglas County is included in the Duluth, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area ...
(southeast) * Carlton County (south) * Aitkin County (southwest) * Itasca County (west) * Koochiching County (northwest)


National protected areas

*
Superior National Forest The Superior National Forest, part of the United States National Forest system, is located in the Arrowhead Region of the U.S. state, state of Minnesota between the Canada–United States border and the North Shore (Lake Superior), north shore o ...
(part) **
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or BWCA) comprises of pristine forests, glacial lakes, and streams in the Superior National Forest. Located entirely within the U.S. state of Minnesota at the Boundary Waters, the wilderness are ...
(part) * Voyageurs National Park (part)


Climate and weather

The county has a
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(
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''Dfb''), slightly moderated by its proximity to Lake Superior. Winters are long, snowy, and very cold, normally seeing maximum temperatures remaining below on 106 days. Due to global warming, in January 2019 Tracy Twine, professor at the University of Minnesota's Department of Soil, Water and Climate, said "we just don't expect temperatures to be below 10 degrees Fahrenheit in Duluth anymore." Public schools and other government offices shut down on January 29–30, 2019 because of wind chills of . This apparent anomaly was attributed to changes in the global jet stream due to the climate change.


Demographics


2020 census

''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''


2010 census

As of the
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of 2010, there were 200,226 people in the county. The racial makeup of the county was 94.0%
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, 2.2% Native American, 0.4% Black or African American, 0.9% Asian, 0.2% of some other race and 2.3% of two or more races. 1.2% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race). According to the 2010–2015
American Community Survey The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the United States Census Bureau. It regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the United States census, decennial census ...
, the ancestral makeup was 24.3% German, 15.9% Norwegian, 13.0% Swedish, and 10.2% Irish.


2000 census

As of the
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of 2000, there were 200,528 people, 82,619 households, and 51,389 families in the county. The
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was . There were 95,800 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 94.9% White, 0.9% Black or African American, 2.0% Native American, 0.7% Asian, nil%
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, 0.2% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. 0.8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 27.6% of households included children under the age of 18, 49.3% were
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living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.8% were non-families. 31.2% of all households consisted of individuals, and 13.0% of individuals 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.90. The population contained 22.4% under the age of 18, 11.4% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 96.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.8 males. The median income for a household in the county was $36,306, and the median income for a family was $47,134. Males had a median income of $37,934 versus $24,235 for females. The
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for the county was $18,982. About 7.2% of families and 12.1% of the population were below the
poverty line The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for ...
, including 13.1% of those under age 18 and 8.9% of those age 65 or over.


Government

St. Louis County is governed by an elected and
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board of commissioners. In Minnesota, county commissions usually have five members, but St. Louis, Hennepin, and Ramsey counties have seven-member boards. Each commissioner represents a
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of equal population. The county commission elects a
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who presides at meetings. Commissioners as of January 2025:


Politics

In 2007, St. Louis County considered doing a study about dividing into two counties, but the proposal was not acted on. This county is one of the most reliably Democratic counties in the state, as no Republican or Independent candidate has won the county in a statewide election since 1992. The only time a Democrat obtained less than 50% of the vote was in 1998, when
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of the Reform ticket won statewide; some 24% of the county voted for him. Since 1992, the only time when a Republican obtained more than 34% of the vote was in the elections of 1994 (the year of the
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) when the incumbent Independent-Republican governor won the statewide vote by a landslide of more than 60%, and when the Independent-Republican senatorial candidate won election with 49% statewide, both of which are rare occurrences in Minnesota.


Presidential elections

St. Louis County has long been one of the strongest Democratic bastions in the state outside of the Twin Cities. The Democrats have carried the county for 24 consecutive presidential elections; the last Republican candidate to carry the county was
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in 1928, before the Great Depression. In recent elections, Republicans have received about 1/3rd of the county's vote. In 2016,
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earned 39.7% of the county's vote, while the Democratic vote deteriorated to 51.4% (the lowest percentage since 1932); according to exit polls, this was due to residents' concerns about the decline of mining and forestry in the county. This was the closest that a Republican had come to winning the county since 1932. In
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, Trump became the first Republican since Herbert Hoover to get more than 40% of the vote in St. Louis County, but
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bolstered the Democratic margin of victory from 11.7% to 15.6%.


Congress

St. Louis County is in Minnesota's 8th congressional district. For 36 years it was represented by Democrat
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. He was defeated in 2010 by Republican Chip Cravaack. Two years later Cravaack was defeated by Democrat Rick Nolan, who represented the district until his retirement in 2019. Republican St. Louis County commissioner Pete Stauber succeeded Nolan in one of three Democrat-to-Republican district flips in 2018, two of which happened in Minnesota.


Communities


Cities

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* Babbitt * Biwabik * Brookston * Buhl * Chisholm *
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Duluth Duluth ( ) is a Port, port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County, Minnesota, St. Louis County. Located on Lake Superior in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region, the city is a hub for cargo shipping. The population ...
(county seat) * Ely * Eveleth * Floodwood * Gilbert * Hermantown * Hibbing * Hoyt Lakes * Iron Junction * Kinney * Leonidas *
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* Meadowlands * Mountain Iron * Orr *
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* Rice Lake *
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* Winton


Townships

* Alango Township * Alborn Township * Alden Township * Angora Township * Arrowhead Township * Ault Township * Balkan Township * Bassett Township * Beatty Township * Biwabik Township * Breitung Township * Brevator Township * Camp 5 Township * Canosia Township * Cedar Valley Township * Cherry Township * Clinton Township * Colvin Township * Cotton Township * Crane Lake Township * Culver Township * Duluth Township * Eagles Nest Township * Ellsburg Township * Elmer Township * Embarrass Township * Fairbanks Township * Fayal Township * Field Township * Fine Lakes Township * Floodwood Township * Fredenberg Township * French Township * Gnesen Township * Grand Lake Township * Great Scott Township * Greenwood Township * Halden Township * Industrial Township * Kabetogama Township * Kelsey Township * Kugler Township * Lakewood Township * Lavell Township * Leiding Township * Linden Grove Township * McDavitt Township * Meadowlands Township * Midway Township * Morcom Township * Morse Township * Ness Township * New Independence Township * Normanna Township * North Star Township * Northland Township * Owens Township * Pequaywan Township * Pike Township * Portage Township * Prairie Lake Township * Sandy Township * Solway Township * Stoney Brook Township * Sturgeon Township * Toivola Township * Van Buren Township * Vermilion Lake Township * Waasa Township * White Township * Willow Valley Township * Wuori Township


Unorganized territories

* Angleworm Lake * Bear Head Lake * Birch Lake * Camp A Lake * Crab Lake * Dark River * Gheen * Hay Lake * Heikkala Lake * Hush Lake * Janette Lake * Leander Lake * Linwood Lake * Marion Lake * McCormack * Mud Hen Lake * Nett Lake * Northeast St. Louis * Northwest St. Louis * Pfeiffer Lake * Picket Lake * Potshot Lake * Sand Lake * Slim Lake * Sturgeon River * Sunday Lake * Tikander Lake * Whiteface Reservoir


Census-designated places

* Mahnomen * Nett Lake * Soudan


Unincorporated communities

* Alborn * Angora * Ash Lake * Bassett * Bear River *
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* Brimson * Britt * Burnett * Burntside * Buyck *
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* Celina * Central Lakes *
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* Clover Valley *
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* Crane Lake * Culver * Cusson * Eldes Corner * Elmer * Embarrass * Fairbanks * Florenton *
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* French River * Gheen * Gheen Corner * Glendale * Gowan * Greaney * Idington *
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* Island Lake * Kabetogama * Keenan * Kelsey * Linden Grove * Makinen * Markham * McComber * Meadow Brook * Melrude * Munger * Palmers * Palo * Payne * Peary *
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* Peyla * Pineville * Prosit * Ramshaw * Robinson * Rollins * Saginaw * Sax * Shaw * Sherman Corner * Side Lake *
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* Simar * Skibo *
Sturgeon Sturgeon (from Old English ultimately from Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European *''str̥(Hx)yón''-) is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the ...
* Taft * Toivola *
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* Vermilion Dam * Wakemup * Whiteface *
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* Zim


Ghost towns

* Carson LakeCarson Lake
Hibbing Historical Society and Museum. Accessed April 11, 2021.
* Costin Village * Elcor *
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Education

K-12 school districts include:
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/ref> * Chisholm Public School District * Cloquet Public School District * Duluth Public School District * Ely Public School District * Eveleth-Gilbert School District * Floodwood Public School District * Hermantown Public School District * Hibbing Public School District * Lake Superior Public School District * Proctor Public School District * Virginia Public School District * Mesabi East School District There is one elementary school district, Nett Lake Public School District.


See also

* National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis County, Minnesota * Independent School District 2142


References


External links


St. Louis County Government site – Link

''Duluth News Tribune'' site
* Mn/DOT maps of St. Louis County
Southwest portionWest–Central portionSoutheast portionEast–Central portionNorthern part of West–Central portionNorthwest portionNortheast portion
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