Southwest Minneapolis
Southwest Minneapolis is a district in Minneapolis. It includes Uptown, Lyn-Lake, the Wedge, Eat Street, Linden Hills, the popular Chain of Lakes, and other areas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 48,100 residents
- Description: community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Also known as: “Minneapolis/Southwest”, “Southwest”, “Southwest, Minneapolis”, and “Southwest, Minneapolis, Minnesota”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Harriet and Queen Avenue Bridge.
Lake Harriet
Lake
Photo: Baseball Bugs, Public domain.
Lake Harriet is a lake in southwest Minneapolis, south of Bde Maka Ska and north of Minnehaha Creek. The lake is surrounded by parkland as part of Minneapolis’ Chain of Lakes. The lake has an area of 335 acres and a maximum depth of 85 feet.
Queen Avenue Bridge
Bridge
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Queen Avenue Bridge is a reinforced concrete single-span barrel arch bridge in Minneapolis that spans the tracks used by the Minnesota Streetcar Museum.
Washburn Park Water Tower
Water tower
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Washburn Park Water Tower is a landmark in the Tangle town neighborhood of south Minneapolis, Minnesota, built in 1931. It is located on top of one of the highest points of south Minneapolis.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lynnhurst and Fulton.
Lynnhurst
Neighborhood
Lynnhurst is a neighborhood in the Southwest community in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its boundaries are 46th Street to the north, Lyndale Avenue to the east, 54th Street to the south, and Penn Avenue to the west.
Fulton
Neighborhood
Fulton is a neighborhood in the Southwest community in Minneapolis. Its boundaries are West 47th Street to the north, Penn Avenue South to the east, West 54th Street to the south, and France Avenue South to the west.
Armatage
Neighborhood
Armatage is a neighborhood in the Southwest community in Minneapolis. In the city's southwest corner, the neighborhood is bounded on the north by 54th Street West, on the east by Logan Avenue South, on the south by Highway 62, and on the west by the city limits at Xerxes Avenue South.
Southwest Minneapolis
- Categories: defined community of Minneapolis, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Minneapolis, Hennepin, Twin Cities, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.91235° or 44° 54′ 44″ northLongitude
-93.30104° or 93° 18′ 4″ westPopulation
48,100Open location code
86P8WM6X+WHOpenStreetMap ID
node 2944180669OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q2351324
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Satellite Map
Discover Southwest Minneapolis from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Chinese to South Azerbaijani—“Southwest Minneapolis” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Southwest”
- Dutch: “Southwest”
- Italian: “Minneapolis sudovest”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Southwest”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوتوزت، مینیپولیس”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Southwest Minneapolis”. Photo: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0.