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Eyota is a city in Olmsted County in southeastern Minnesota, just east of Rochester, where U.S. Route 14 and Minnesota Highway 42 run through town and Interstate 90 passes immediately to the south.

The name Eyota is derived from the Dakota word iyotan, meaning "greatest" or "most."

Eyota was platted in 1864 and incorporated on February 16, 1875, and a post office has been in operation there since 1864.

The first settler, Benjamin Bear, scouted the site in 1853 for its ever-flowing spring and returned with his family in 1854; Bear Creek still flows from that spring, and part of it is now held back to form Chester Woods Lake behind a dam built to protect Rochester from flooding.

In its early years Eyota was a busy railroad wye town, shipping local grain and cattle, with daily trains leaving its depot for Plainview to the north and Chatfield to the south on what became the Chicago & North Western Railway.

Eyota's first medical doctor, Augustus Stinchfield, arrived in 1873 and built an extensive practice; in 1892 the Mayo brothers persuaded him to move to Rochester, where he became the first non-family member to partner in the practice that grew into the Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Rollo C. Dugan built the eight-bed Eyota Hospital on Second Street in 1900.

The Eyota Creamery, built in 1924, remains one of the city's landmarks.

The population of Eyota was 2,006 at the 2020 census, living in 747 households.

After hovering below 650 residents for a century, Eyota nearly doubled in a single decade, jumping from 639 people in 1970 to 1,244 in 1980, and it has grown past 2,000 since.