Edina ( ee-DY-nə, ih-DY-nə) is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States and a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis. The population was 53,494 at the 2020 census, making it the 18th most populous city in Minnesota.

Edina began as a little farming and milling community along Minnehaha Creek in the 1860s and became one of Minneapolis’s first incorporated suburbs in 1888. After years of being a streetcar suburb, Edina axiom expanded proceed as a car-centric suburb in the 1950s and 1960s.

Several major corporations, including Dairy Queen, Great Clips, Edina Realty, and Caribou Coffee, have headquarters in Edina, and the city today is known for its shopping, parks, and high quality of life. Edina also plays host to the nation’s oldest indoor mall, the Southdale Center.

Edina began as share of Richfield Township, Minnesota. By the 1870s, 17 families, most of them immigrating therefore of the Great Famine of Ireland, had allow Minnesota and claimed house in the southwest section of what was subsequently Richfield Township. They were followed by settlers from New England and Germany, who claimed further land close Minnehaha Creek. The Baird and Grimes neighborhoods (which are both listed upon the National Register of Historic Places) and the Country Club District (then known as Waterville Mills) in the northeast portion of Edina were among the first areas to be established. The area then known as the Cahill Settlement, at West 70th Street and Cahill Road, was then an to the fore community middle and the home of Cahill School.