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Hibbing is a city in St. Louis County on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range, established in 1893 by German immigrant Frank Hibbing, who had discovered iron ore nearby.

Hibbing was once known as the 'Iron Capital of the World.'

Hibbing is home to the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, billed as the world's largest open-pit iron ore mine and nicknamed the 'Grand Canyon of the North.'

During its peak production from World War I to World War II, the Hull-Rust-Mahoning mine is said to have provided about one-fourth of all the iron ore mined in the United States.

Hibbing is known as 'The Town That Moved': starting in 1919, some 188 buildings were moved two miles south to the present townsite because rich iron ore lay beneath the original town, a relocation that cost about $16 million.

Hibbing is the birthplace of the intercity bus industry in the United States: in 1914 Carl Wickman and Andrew Anderson began carrying miners between Hibbing and Alice in a seven-passenger car, a business that grew into Greyhound Lines, and the Greyhound Bus Museum now stands in Hibbing.

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, was raised in Hibbing and lived at 2425 7th Avenue East from 1948 to 1959, and the Hibbing Public Library maintains a Bob Dylan collection and exhibit.

After Hibbing annexed the surrounding Town of Stuntz in 1979, it became the largest city by land area in Minnesota.

The 2020 census counted 16,214 people in Hibbing.

Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 put Hibbing at about 7,760 households, averaging only about 2.03 people per household, among the smallest household sizes of any Minnesota city.