Editing Gilbert, Minnesota (section)

{{Short description|City in Minnesota, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
|official_name            = Gilbert
|settlement_type          = [[City]]
|nickname                 = 
|motto                    =

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|image_map                = St._Louis_County_Minnesota_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Gilbert_Highlighted.svg
|mapsize                  = 250px
|map_caption              = Location of the city of Gilbert<br>within [[St. Louis County, Minnesota|Saint Louis County, Minnesota]]
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|subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
|subdivision_name         = United States
|subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
|subdivision_name1        = [[Minnesota]]
|subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in Minnesota|County]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[St. Louis County, Minnesota|Saint Louis]]

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|government_footnotes     = 
|government_type          = 
|leader_title             = [[Mayor]]
|leader_name              = Karl Oberstar Jr.
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|unit_pref                = Imperial
|area_footnotes           = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_27.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=July 24, 2022}}</ref>
|area_magnitude           = 
|area_total_km2           = 32.16
|area_land_km2            = 30.25
|area_water_km2           = 1.92
|area_total_sq_mi         = 12.42
|area_land_sq_mi          = 11.68
|area_water_sq_mi         = 0.74

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|population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
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|population_total         = 1687
|population_density_km2   = 55.78
|population_density_sq_mi = 144.46

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|timezone                 = [[North American Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]]
|utc_offset               = -6
|timezone_DST             = CDT
|utc_offset_DST           = -5
|elevation_footnotes      = <ref name="GR3"/>
|elevation_m              = 
|elevation_ft             = 1529
|coordinates              = {{coord|47|29|5|N|92|27|58|W|region:US-MN|display=inline}}
|postal_code_type         = [[ZIP code]]s
|postal_code              = 55741
|area_code                = [[Area code 218|218]]
|blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
|blank_info               = 27-23714
|blank1_name              = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
|blank1_info              = 0661356<ref name="GR3">{{GNIS|661356}}</ref>
|website                  = {{URL|https://www.gilbertmn.org/}}
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'''Gilbert''' is a city in [[St. Louis County, Minnesota]], United States. The population was 1,687 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gilbert, Minnesota |url=https://data.census.gov/all?q=Gilbert%20city,%20Minnesota |access-date=June 1, 2024 |website=Census}}</ref> [[Minnesota State Highway 37|State Highway 37 (MN 37)]] and [[Minnesota State Highway 135|State Highway 135 (MN 135)]] are two of the main routes in Gilbert. Gilbert is part of the [[Quad Cities (Minnesota)|Quad Cities]], with [[Virginia, Minnesota|Virginia]], [[Eveleth, Minnesota|Eveleth]], and [[Mountain Iron, Minnesota|Mountain Iron]]. The city is named for either Giles Gilbert, who led the exploration of the McKinley mine property in the 1890s, or E. A. Gilbert, a Duluth businessman.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Upham |first=Warren |title=Minnesota place names: a geographical encyclopedia |date=2001 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |isbn=978-0-87351-396-8 |edition=3rd |location=St. Paul |pages=523}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bordeau |first=Sanford P. |title=Those Were the Days, My Friend: The History of Gilbert and Sparta |last2=Krause |first2=James L. |last3=Krause |first3=Kathie I. |date=1983 |publisher=The Gilbert Herald}}</ref>
[[File:IronRangeHistoricalSociety.JPG|thumb|Gilbert Village Hall]]