Golden Valley is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is a western suburb of Minneapolis and is the main corporate headquarters of General Mills and Pentair. Golden Valley is also the home of NBC affiliate KARE, the Perpich Center for Arts Education and Breck School. The population was 20,371 at the 2010 census. Tribes of Chippewa and Sioux had encampments on nearby Medicine Lake. The first white settlers arrived in the early 1850s. Golden Valley was incorporated December 17, 1886. In the early twentieth century it was mostly a farming community. According to the United... States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.5 square miles , of which, 10.2 square miles of it is land and 0.3 square miles of it is water. The 45th parallel north runs through Golden Valley, coinciding approximately with Duluth Street. Interstate 394, U.S. Route 169, and Minnesota State Highways 55 and 100 are four of the main arterial routes in the city. As of the census of 2000, there were 20,281 people, 8,449 households, and 5,508 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,982.3 people per square mile .
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| County: | Hennepin County |
| State: | Minnesota |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Population: | 20,344 |
| Area: | 10.5 sq. mi. |
| Time zone: | Central Time zone |
| Also known as: | Golden Valley, Minnesota, Hennepin County / Golden Valley city |