Burnsville is a city 15 miles (24 km) south of downtown Minneapolis in Dakota County, Minnesota. The city lies on a bluff overlooking the south bank of the Minnesota River upstream from its confluence considering the Mississippi River. Burnsville and clear suburbs form the southern allocation of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the 16th-largest metropolitan Place in the United States, with roughly 3.7 million residents. At the 2020 census the population was 64,317.

Burnsville is house to a regional mall (Burnsville Center), a section of Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve, 310-foot (94 m) vertical ski peak Buck Hill, and share of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

Burnsville stands upon land that past contained a village of Mdewakanton Dakota. Later, it became a rural Irish cultivation community. Burnsville became Minnesota’s 14th-largest city in the 2020 census later the construction of Interstate 35. Now the ninth-largest suburb in the metro Place and a bedroom community of both Minneapolis and Saint Paul, it was fully built by the late 2000s. Burnsville’s downtown area is called Heart of the City with urban-style retail and condominiums. The Burnsville Transit Station serves as the hub and headquarters of the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority, providing regional bus minister to to five new suburbs.

The name Burnsville is qualified to an in advance Irish settler and land owner, William Byrne. His surname was recorded as “Burns” and was never corrected.