Wyoming, Minnesota
city in Minnesota, United States
Wyoming is a city in Chisago County, Minnesota. The population was 8,032 at the 2020 census.
History
Wyoming was platted in 1869 when the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad was extended to that point. The city took its name from Wyoming Township.
Wyoming served as the drop-off point for a Depression era kidnapping. In June 1933, William Hamm of Hamm's Brewery was released by his captors, the Barker–Karpis gang, following collection of a $100,000 ransom payment ($1.825 mil. in 2015 dollars).
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.29 square miles (55.14 km2), of which 20.26 square miles (52.47 km2) is land and 1.03 square miles (2.67 km2) is water. Wyoming is located along the South Branch of the Sunrise River.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wyoming, Minnesota” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.