Biohazard Cleanup Near Riverside Fields Shakopee, MN

Shakopee is the county seat and largest city of Scott County, Minnesota, sitting on the south bank of a bend in the Minnesota River southwest of Minneapolis.

The city is named for Chief Shakopee II of the Mdewakanton Dakota, who established his village at the east end of present-day Shakopee in the 18th century; the Dakota name for the place is Tinta Ottonwe.

Shakopee began in 1851 as a trading post beside the Dakota village of Chief Shakopee and was incorporated in 1857.

The Shakopee Historic District along the riverbank contains burial mounds built by prehistoric cultures.

The population of Shakopee was 43,698 at the 2020 census, up from just 11,831 in 1990 as the city boomed into a Twin Cities suburb.

Shakopee has about 16,655 households according to Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024, and about 75% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Valleyfair amusement park opened in Shakopee in 1976 and has grown to more than 75 attractions on 90 acres, drawing more than one million visitors a year.

Canterbury Park, which opened as Canterbury Downs in 1985 and took its current name in 1994, offers live horse racing and a 24-hour card club and draws more than 600,000 people a year.

The Landing, an 88-acre living history museum on the site of the area's original ferry route, was established as Murphy's Landing in 1969 and is now operated by the Three Rivers Park District.

Part of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community's reservation lies within the city limits of Shakopee.