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{{Short description|City in Minnesota, United States}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox settlement | name = | official_name = Red Wing | settlement_type = City | image_skyline = Red Wing, Minnesota image.jpg | imagesize = 250px | image_caption = [[Red Wing Bridge]] and Downtown Red Wing | image_flag = <!-- not without a reliable source --> | image_seal = | nickname = | motto = "Come for a visit, stay for a lifetime"<ref name="city">{{cite web|url= http://www.red-wing.org/|title= City of Red Wing Minnesota |publisher= City of Red Wing Minnesota |access-date= October 9, 2012}}</ref> | image_map = Goodhue_County_Minnesota_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Red_Wing_Highlighted.svg | mapsize = 250px | map_caption = Location of the city of Red Wing<br />within [[Goodhue County, Minnesota|Goodhue County]]<br />in the state of [[Minnesota]] | image_map1 = | mapsize1 = | map_caption1 = | coordinates = {{coord|44|34|N|92|32|W|region:US-MN|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = United States | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in Minnesota|County]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Minnesota]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Goodhue County, Minnesota|Goodhue]] | established_title = | established_date = 1857 | government_type = Mayor – Council | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Mike Wilson<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.red-wing.org/officeofthemayor.html|title=Office of the Mayor|publisher=Red-wing.org|access-date=February 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722174412/http://www.red-wing.org/officeofthemayor.html|archive-date=July 22, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> | 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 = 107.26 | area_total_sq_mi = 41.41 | area_land_km2 = 90.20 | area_land_sq_mi = 34.83 | area_water_km2 = 17.06 | area_water_sq_mi = 6.59 | area_urban_km2 = | area_urban_sq_mi = | area_metro_km2 = | area_metro_sq_mi = | elevation_footnotes = <ref name="GR3"/> | elevation_m = 224 | elevation_ft = | population_total = 16547 | population_as_of = [[2020 United States census|2020]] | population_footnotes = | population_density_km2 = 183.45 | population_density_sq_mi = 475.12 | population_est = | pop_est_as_of = | pop_est_footnotes = | population_urban = | population_metro = | postal_code_type = [[ZIP Code]] | postal_code = 55066 | area_code_type = [[North American Numbering Plan|Area code]] | area_code = [[Area code 651|651]] | unemployment_rate = | website = {{URL|http://www.red-wing.org}} | footnotes = | timezone = [[North American Central Time Zone|CST]] | utc_offset = -6 | timezone_DST = [[North American Central Time Zone|CDT]] | utc_offset_DST = -5 | blank_name = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS]] code | blank_info = {{FIPS|27|53620}} | blank1_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] ID | blank1_info = 0649885<ref name="GR3">{{GNIS|649885}}</ref> | unit_pref = Imperial | named_for = [[Tatankamani|Chief Red Wing]] }} '''Red Wing''' is a city in and the [[county seat]] of [[Goodhue County, Minnesota]], United States, along the upper [[Mississippi River]]. The population was 16,547 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]]. It is part of the [[Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area]].<ref name="2020-census-2753620">{{cite web|title=2020 Decennial Census: Red Wing city, Minnesota |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2753620&y=2020&d=DEC%20Redistricting%20Data%20%28PL%2094-171%29 |website=data.census.gov |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=29 September 2022}}</ref><ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx|access-date=June 7, 2011|title=Find a County|publisher=National Association of Counties}}</ref><ref name="ePodunk">{{cite web |url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=21391 |title= Profile for Red Wing, Minnesota, MN |publisher= ePodunk |access-date= October 9, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190514103622/http://epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=21391 |archive-date= May 14, 2019 |url-status= dead }}</ref> This city is named for early 19th-century Dakota [[Sioux]] chief [[Tatankamani|Red Wing]].<ref name="ePodunk"/><ref name="O'Connor">{{cite journal |url=http://americanstrings.blogspot.com/2011/07/red-wing.html|title=Red Wing |journal=The O'Connor Method – A New American School of String Playing |publisher=New American School of String Playing |volume=II |first1=Mark |last1=O'Connor |author-link=Mark O'Connor |date=July 15, 2011|access-date=July 8, 2013}}</ref> The federal government established a [[Mdewakanton]] Sioux [[Indian reservation]]—now [[Prairie Island Indian Community]]—in 1936 along the Mississippi River. The city of Red Wing developed around it. The [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]] placed Red Wing on its 2008 distinctive destinations list because of its "impressive architecture and enviable natural environment".<ref>{{cite web | title = Red Wing, Minnesota | work = Dozen Distinctive Destinations 2008 | publisher = [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]] | year = 2008 | url = http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/midwest-region/red-wing-mn-2008.html | access-date = March 26, 2008 }}</ref>
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