Nininger

Nininger is a ghost town in section 18 of Nininger Township in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States.

Type: Village with 883 residents
Description: unincorporated community in Minnesota, USA
Also known as: “Nininger, Minnesota”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lock and Dam No. 2.

Lock and Dam No. 2

Lock

Photo: USGS, Public domain.

Lock and Dam No. 2 is located along the Upper Mississippi River near Hastings, Minnesota and construction commenced in 1927. The eastern dam portion is 722 feet wide and has 19 tainter gates. Lock and Dam No. 2 is situated 2 miles east of Nininger.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hastings and Cottage Grove.

Hastings

Photo: Appraiser, Public domain.

Hastings is a city mostly in Dakota County, Minnesota, of which it is the county seat, with a portion in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. It is near the confluence of the Mississippi, Vermillion, and St.

Cottage Grove

Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cottage Grove is a city of 40,000 people in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota. It is a suburb of the southeast portion of Minneapolis-Saint Paul.

Prescott

Photo: formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Prescott is a city in Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States, at the confluence of the St. Croix River and Mississippi River. Prescott is at the edge of the Minneapolis–St.

Nininger

Categories: ghost town and locality
Location: Nininger Township, Dakota, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.76913° or 44° 46′ 9″ north

Longitude

-92.90215° or 92° 54′ 8″ west

Population

883

Elevation

791 feet (241 metres)

Open location code

86P9Q39X+M4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 151543903

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

5039304

Wikidata ID

Q14692938

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Hebrew—“Nininger” goes by many names.

Chinese: “尼寧格”
Hebrew: “נינינגר”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Nininger Town Hall and Eagle Bluff Park.

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