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Prospect Park is a historic neighborhood within the University community of the U.S. city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.The area is bounded by the Mississippi River to the south, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota to the east, the Burlington Northern railroad yard to the north, and the Stadium Village commercial district of the University of Minnesota to the west.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.01 sq mi (7.80 km 2), of which 2.85 sq mi (7.38 km 2) is land and 0.16 sq mi (0.41 km 2) is water. [7] Silver Lake and Casey Lake are the city's largest bodies of water and both have large, adjacent parks.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.01 square miles (12.98 km 2), of which 4.91 square miles (12.72 km 2) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km 2) is water. [6] U.S. Highway 52 (also known as the Lafayette Freeway), Robert Street, and Minnesota Highway 62 are three of West St. Paul's main routes.
A map of the current layout of Ayd Mill Road in Saint Paul, Minnesota Looking northwest on Ayd Mill Road, from Hamline Avenue overpass. Ayd Mill Road (/ ˌ aɪ d ˈ m ɪ l / EYED MILL is a road in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It runs diagonally through Saint Paul, connecting with Interstate 35E at its southeast terminus, and feeds into Selby Avenue ...
The area was separated from Saint Paul along the river [5] by a ravine that was first bridged and was then filled. Many of the streets in the community were [6] laid out parallel to the Mississippi River rather than north–south. Feed, flour, and lumber mills were built in the area in the 1850s and used Phalen Creek as a source of water power.
A burial mound at Indian Mounds Park. Burial mounds in present-day Indian Mounds Park suggest the area was inhabited by the Hopewell Native Americans about 2,000 years ago. [17] [18] From the early 17th century to 1837, the Mdewakanton Dakota, a band of the Dakota people, lived near the mounds at the village of Kaposia and consider the area encompassing present-day Saint Paul Bdóte, the site ...
The area north of downtown on the west bank of the Mississippi River is considered North Minneapolis. The part of Minneapolis on the east bank of the Mississippi River is divided by East Hennepin Avenue into Northeast and Southeast, approximately aligned with the communities of Northeast and University , respectively.
Original numbering plan areas and area codes of Minnesota in 1952. When the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) created the first nationwide telephone numbering plan for Operator Toll Dialing in 1947 to automate and speed the connection of long-distance calls, the United States and Canada were divided into 86 geographic numbering plan areas (NPAs) and assigned the original North ...