Eagle Lake

Eagle Lake

Named the 2nd fastest growing city in Minnesota in 2016, Eagle Lake is a small city with a family friendly atmosphere - a safe, quiet community located just a few minutes from the large regional center of Mankato.

Although many residents work outside of the city, they enjoy the friendly neighborhoods they come home to. The ease of meeting the daily needs of life make Eagle Lake a great place to live. 

Eagle Lake has several parks featuring ball fields and playgrounds, as well as bike and walking trails that are well used. As part of Mankato Public Schools, our elementary school serves students from K-5. There are also many businesses that provide various services to the community and surrounding areas.

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History

EAGLE LAKE, a railway village in sections 7 and 18, Le Ray Township, received its name from the neighboring lake, which had been so named by the U.S. land surveyors because many bald eagles had nests in high trees on the lakeshore. It was platted in November 1872 by Freeman A. Cate on a portion of his farm in section 18, and in 1874 James Steward and Walter L. Breckenridge platted another site just east of the original one. It was incorporated as a village on July 14, 1902. The village was the principal center of wood and lumber businesses in the county in 1870s; it had a station of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in section 18, mills, and elevators; and exported wheat, pork, hoop poles, and wood. Its post office was known as Spirer, 1870-73, the name a form of Speir, Germany, as suggested by J. Beirlis. Over the years the city has seen a gradual change from an industrial village to a residential site.