EAGAN REAL ESTATE
Located in Dakota County, Eagan is a thriving suburb of the Twin Cities metropolitan area located approximately 15 miles (24 km) southeast of downtown Minneapolis. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 63,557, and is the eighth most populous city in Minnesota.
Eagan was named for Patrick Eagan who was the first chairman of the town board of supervisors. Patrick Eagan tamed a 220-acre (0.89 km2) parcel of land near the present-day town hall. Eagan and his wife Margaret Twohy, emigrated from Tipperary, Ireland to Troy, New York where they married in 1843. They arrived in Mendota around 1853-1854, before settling in the Eagan area.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 33.4 square miles (86.6 km²), of which, 32.3 square miles (83.7 km²) of it is land and 1.1 square miles (2.9 km²) of it (3.38%) is water. Interstate Highway 35E, Interstate Highway 494, Minnesota Highways 13, 55, 77, and 149 are six of the main routes in the city.
The Eagan Core Greenway is an ongoing-project to preserve Eagan's environmentally-sensitive green space, with particular emphasis on Patrick Eagan Park and a two-mile (3 km) greenway connecting the park with Lebanon Hills Regional Park
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