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Breckenridge is a city in far western Minnesota and the county seat of Wilkin County, on the North Dakota border.

Breckenridge was platted in the spring of 1857 and named for John Cabell Breckinridge, the U.S. senator from Kentucky who was then serving as the 14th Vice President of the United States; a post office has been in operation there since 1857.

Breckenridge stands at the headwaters of the Red River of the North: the Bois de Sioux River and the Otter Tail River join at the city to form the Red River, which then flows north toward Hudson Bay in Canada.

Breckenridge's twin city is Wahpeton, North Dakota, just across the river, and together they anchor the Wahpeton micropolitan area.

During the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862, Breckenridge's citizens were warned of a planned raid and most fled across the river to Fort Abercrombie; the town then remained a virtual ghost town until the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad reached it in 1871.

Breckenridge was not incorporated until 1908, a full half-century after it was platted.

The 2020 census counted 3,430 people in Breckenridge, and the 2010 census counted 1,445 households in the city.

Breckenridge's population peaked at 4,335 in the 1960 census and has declined slowly since.

The 1928 Wilkin County Courthouse in Breckenridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wilkin County itself was renamed three times in a single decade: created as Toombs County in 1858, renamed Andy Johnson County in 1863, and finally named Wilkin County in 1868 for Colonel Alexander Wilkin, a Minnesota attorney killed in the Civil War.