# Savage, Minnesota *City in Scott County, Minnesota* Savage is a city in Scott County, [[Minnesota]]. It lies on the southern side of the [[Minnesota River]], roughly 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of downtown [[Minneapolis]], and the 2020 census recorded 32,465 residents there.[^1] The settlement was first called Hamilton, after the city of Hamilton, Ontario. It later took the name of Marion Willis Savage, who owned and trained the racehorse Dan Patch. The city belongs to the southern part of the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area, which is known locally as South of the River.[^2] In this wiki's at-issue record, Savage appears in two pairs from the project's Scott County package. Pair AI-Scott-021 records the project's finding that a 205-page congressional report on Minnesota fraud contains no reference to Savage or to eight other Scott County place and business names. The pair anchors that finding to a March 2025 White House presidential action, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos*.[^3] Pair AI-Scott-022 states that the lead [[Feeding Our Future]] defendant lived in Savage and received a federal sentence of thirty-eight years. It anchors that statement to a May 2026 White House release.[^4] ## Who In the Wikipedia revision held in the pack, the mayor of Savage is Christine Kelly. The four city council members are Stacy Crakes, Matthew Johnson, Bob Coughlen and Megan Bergstrom.[^5] At the federal level, the city is part of Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, whose representative is [[Angie Craig]], a Democrat. The same source places the city in Minnesota Legislative District 55A. It names [[Jessica Hanson]] as the city's member of the [[Minnesota House of Representatives]] and [[Lindsey Port]] as its member of the [[Minnesota Senate]]. The pack does not give party affiliations for the two legislators.[^5] ## What Savage has become a bedroom community that takes in population growth from [[Burnsville]], the larger city on its eastern side. The city once served as a shipbuilding port for the U.S. Navy. It now functions as a center of industrial manufacturing employment in the southern metro.[^6] Three school districts serve the city: Prior Lake-Savage District 719, Burnsville-Eagan-Savage District 191, and Shakopee School District 720. Part of the city lies within the Bloomington School District, but no households are located in that part. The Prior Lake-Savage schools inside the city are Redtail Ridge, Hamilton Ridge and Glendale elementary schools, and their students go on to Prior Lake High School. The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage schools inside the city are Harriet Bishop and Hidden Valley elementary schools and Eagle Ridge Middle School, and their students go on to Burnsville High School.[^7] ## When French fur traders and explorers travelled the Minnesota River valley in the 17th century. After 1750, [[Mdewakanton]] [[Dakota]] settled at Chief Black Dog's camp, near present-day Black Dog Lake in Burnsville. Dakota used the valley, including the ground of present-day Savage, for fishing, game, boating and camping.[^8] In 1852 traders set up a small post where the Credit River meets the Minnesota River. William Byrne had emigrated from County Kilkenny, Ireland, to Hamilton, Ontario, in 1840. He came to the area soon after the post opened, by steamboat from [[Fort Snelling]]. With other Irish and Scottish settlers, he built a boat landing called Hamilton Landing, named for the Canadian city.[^8] The Chicago & North Western railway, now the Union Pacific, reached the site in 1865. A post office followed in 1866, and the village of Hamilton was incorporated in 1892. In 1894 the post office was renamed Glendale Post Station, and Glendale Township was formed to the west of Hamilton. The township was consolidated with Savage in 1969. About 17 blocks of the late-19th-century town survive as the downtown along Highway 13.[^9] In 1902, Minneapolis businessman Marion Willis Savage bought Dan Patch. He trained and raced the horse at his farm within Hamilton's limits. As the horse set speed records, residents renamed the community after Savage in 1904.[^10] ## Where The [[United States Census Bureau]] gives the city's area as 16.45 square miles (42.61 km²). Of that, 15.63 square miles is land and 0.82 square miles is water. The Minnesota River forms the northern boundary, and its tributary the Credit River runs north through the city.[^11] Minnesota State Highway 13 and County Road 42 are principal routes through Savage, and Interstate 35W and U.S. Highway 169 run nearby. Parts of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge and the Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve lie inside the city limits.[^12] ## How many The 2020 census counted 32,465 residents, with a median age of 36.7 years. Of those residents, 27.2% were under 18 and 10.4% were 65 or older. The census counted 11,181 households: 39.9% included children under 18, and 63.7% were married-couple households. It also counted 11,460 housing units, of which 2.4% were vacant.[^13] The 2010 census had counted 26,911 people in 9,116 households, 7,222 of them families. The population density in 2010 was 1,721.8 inhabitants per square mile. Each set of figures is as of its census date.[^14] ## In the at-issue record ### AI-Scott-021 The project's at-issue text concerns a 205-page congressional report on Minnesota fraud. It states that a full-text search of that report for nine terms returned no hits. The nine terms were Scott County, [[Shakopee]], Savage, [[Prior Lake]], [[Jordan]], Belle Plaine, New Prague, [[Empire Cuisine]] and Shamsia Hopes.[^3] The text further states that the report does not name the storefront that trial testimony put at $25 million. The pack does not identify that storefront or that trial. The pair lists its sources as oversight.house.gov and sahanjournal.com. Neither document is among the sources in the pack, so the zero-hits result is stated here as the project's finding, not as independently established fact.[^3] The pair's anchor is the March 2025 presidential action whose title gives its stated aim: *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos*. The pair sets that stated aim beside the report's absence of all nine names.[^3] ### AI-Scott-022 The pair states that the lead Feeding Our Future defendant lived in Savage and "built a lakefront mansion in Prior Lake with the proceeds". It also states: "He was sentenced to thirty-eight years — twenty-eight for the fraud and ten more for trying to buy the jury."[^4] The pack does not name the defendant, and neither does this article. The pair lists its sources as justice.gov and sahanjournal.com, neither of which is in the pack. Its anchor is a May 2026 White House release, *Trump Administration's Full-Scale War on Fraud*, and the pair describes the sentence as a federal outcome.[^4] The pack carries no State action concerning the defendant. The record here does not establish whether any such action exists.[^4] ## Notes [^1]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — lead section: location in Scott County on the south bank of the Minnesota River, distance from downtown Minneapolis, 2020 census population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^2]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — lead section: former name Hamilton, renaming after Marion Willis Savage, South of the River region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^3]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025) — presidential action cited as the anchor of at-issue pair AI-Scott-021; the pair's search result about the congressional report rests on the project's at-issue text, not on this document. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^4]: The White House, *Trump Administration's Full-Scale War on Fraud* (May 2026) — release cited as the anchor of at-issue pair AI-Scott-022, concerning the federal sentence of the lead Feeding Our Future defendant. https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/05/trump-administrations-full-scale-war-on-fraud/ [^5]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — Government and politics section: mayor, city council, congressional district and representative, Legislative District 55A and its legislators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^6]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — lead section: bedroom community, former U.S. Navy shipbuilding port, industrial manufacturing employment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^7]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — Schools section: districts 719, 191 and 720; Bloomington portion; feeder schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^8]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — History section: French traders, Mdewakanton Dakota settlement after 1750, 1852 trading post, William Byrne and Hamilton Landing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^9]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — History section: 1865 railway, 1866 post office, 1892 incorporation, 1894 Glendale Post Station and Glendale Township, 1969 consolidation, downtown blocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^10]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — History section: 1902 purchase of Dan Patch, 1904 renaming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^11]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — Geography section: Census Bureau area figures, Minnesota River boundary, Credit River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^12]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — lead section: main routes and nearby highways; wildlife refuge and park reserve within city limits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^13]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — Demographics section, 2020 census figures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota [^14]: Wikipedia contributors, *Savage, Minnesota* (revision 1378605069, retrieved 27 October 2026) — Demographics section, 2010 census figures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage,_Minnesota