Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Spring Valley, MN

Spring Valley, in Fillmore County, was laid out in 1855 and named for a spring near the town site; its post office has operated since 1855, and the city was incorporated in 1872.

The 2020 census counted 2,447 residents in 1,079 households in Spring Valley.

Spring Valley's population has been remarkably stable for well over a century, rising from 1,256 in 1880 to a peak of 2,628 in 1960 and standing at 2,479 in 2010.

U.S. Route 63 and Minnesota Highway 16 are Spring Valley's main highways, and the city's nickname is 'The Valley.'

Spring Valley City Hall was originally built in 1904 as a Carnegie library.

Richard Sears, the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company, grew up in Spring Valley after being born in nearby Stewartville.

Almanzo Wilder — the 'Farmer Boy' of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books and later her husband — lived on his family's farm near Spring Valley after they settled in the area in the 1870s.

Laura and Almanzo Wilder themselves lived in Spring Valley in 1890–91, staying with his parents while recovering from diphtheria, a house fire and the loss of their infant son.

The 1876 Victorian-Gothic church the Wilder family attended on West Courtland Street is now the Spring Valley Methodist Church Museum, a museum of Wilder family life in Minnesota, joined by the 1866 Washburn-Zittleman House Museum.

Kingsland Junior/Senior High School, at 705 North Section Avenue, serves grades 7–12 for the Kingsland school district (ISD 2137), which covers Spring Valley and neighboring Wykoff.