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Marshall is the county seat of Lyon County and the regional center of southwestern Minnesota, serving as its hub for medical care, retail, education and employment.

Marshall was platted in 1872 when the railroad reached the area, and James J. Manton chose its name in honor of Minnesota Governor William R. Marshall.

The town boomed instantly: its first newspaper, the Prairie Schooner, wrote in October 1873 that nine months after the first house was built, Marshall already had 79 permanent buildings.

Marshall became an incorporated village in 1876 and a city on February 20, 1901.

Marshall had 13,628 residents at the 2020 census, living in 5,473 households, and Census estimates put the population near 13,906 by 2023; employment studies estimate its daytime population swells to more than 25,000.

Marshall is home to Southwest Minnesota State University, founded in 1963 and opened in 1967 with a charter class of 509 students; the university now enrolls more than 8,000 students and its teams are the Mustangs.

Marshall is the headquarters of the Schwan's Company, one of America's largest frozen-food companies and Minnesota's third-largest privately held corporation, which grew out of Marvin Schwan's 1950s ice-cream home-delivery route and employs about 1,500 people in Marshall.

The farm-and-food economy runs deep in Marshall: Archer Daniels Midland operates a large corn wet-milling plant employing about 250 people, and the Runnings farm-and-fleet retail chain is also headquartered in the city.

The Redwood River's flood plain begins in Marshall, and flooding was such a recurring problem in the 1940s and 1950s that diversion canals were dug around the city between 1961 and 1963, with major channel upgrades completed in 2000.

Marshall Public Schools (District 413) includes Marshall High School, Marshall Middle School, Park Side Elementary and Southview Elementary.