Hibbing, Minnesota

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Hibbing is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA. The population was 16,214 at the 2020 census. The town was platted and the post office began in 1893, shortly after Iron deposits were found in the area by Frank Hibbing, and the city named after him developed as a major mining and railroad town on the Mesabi iron range. Near here is one of the rare triple divide points where waters drain into three major hydro-geographic basins, the Arctic Ocean via Hudson's Bay, The Atlantic via the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River

MN Placenames entry: mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/city.cfm?PlaceNameID=1353&BookC...

City website: www.hibbing.mn.us
Chamber of Commerce: www.hibbing.org
Hibbing Tribune: www.hibbingmn.com


Hibbing Minnesota is the home or birthplace of Bob Dylan, poet and songwriter; Roger Maris, home run king; Vincent Bugliosi, prosecuting attorney who convicted Charles Manson; Kevin McHale, NBA Hall of Famer who played with the Boston Celtics; Rudy Perpich, Minnesota's longest serving Governor; John Hughes, Rythme & Hues Studios winner of the visual effects Academy Award for the movie 'Babe'; Gary Puckett, songwriter and singer (Gary Puckett and the Union Gap); origin of the Grey Hound Bus Line; Hibbing High School, winner of the 1969 Bellamy Award for the best high school in America.