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Waconia is a city in Carver County, Minnesota, on the southern shore of Lake Waconia, about 35 miles southwest of Minneapolis.

Waconia had 13,033 residents at the 2020 census, and Census Bureau survey estimates for 2020-2024 count about 5,151 households, roughly 80.3% of them owner-occupied.

A post office has operated at Waconia since 1860, and the city took its name from Lake Waconia.

Lake Waconia covers about 3,080 acres with a maximum depth of 37 feet, and its fish include walleye, muskellunge, northern pike and crappie.

The lake's 34-acre Coney Island was a Gilded Age resort escape: the Coney Island Hotel opened in 1866, cottages and a hotel drew tourists from 1884 into the late 1920s, and the University of Minnesota football team even held preseason practices on the island in the early 1900s.

Lake Waconia Regional Park, on the lake's south shore east of downtown, offers over 100 acres of parkland, a beach and a popular 80-foot sledding hill locals call Mt. Waconia.

Waconia's signature event is Nickle Dickle Day, started by local merchants in 1961 and held each September on the second Saturday after Labor Day; it draws some 30,000 visitors - more than twice the city's population - for craft booths, duck races and five-cent specials.

Waconia has nearly quadrupled in size in a generation, growing from 3,551 residents in 1990 to 13,033 in 2020 as it became a fast-growing west-metro exurb.

Waconia Public Schools (District 110) operates five schools in the city, including Waconia High School, and the city also has two private schools.

Waconia hosts the Carver County Fair each summer, and several of its buildings - including sites tied to Coney Island's resort era - are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.