Hibbing is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 16,214 at the 2020 census. The city was built on mining the wealthy iron ore of the Mesabi Iron Range and yet relies on that industrial activity today. At the edge of town is the world’s largest open-pit iron mine, the Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine. It is the hometown of well-known singer Bob Dylan and former Governor of Minnesota Rudy Perpich.

The main routes in Hibbing are U.S. Highway 169, State Highway 37, State Highway 73, Howard Street, and 1st Avenue. It is more or less 59 miles (95 km) northwest of Duluth, Minnesota.

The town was founded in 1893 by Frank Hibbing, born in Walsrode, Germany on December 1, 1856, and christened Franz Dietrich von Ahlen. His mommy died bearing in mind he was still in infancy and it was her name, Hibbing, which he assumed with he set out to want his fortune in the New World. He first contracted in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm and in a shingle mill. Injured in a mill accident, he considered becoming a lawyer, but after deciding he was not familiar enough past the English language to make a legal career possible, he turned to timber cruising.

In 1887, Hibbing contracted in Duluth where he acknowledged a genuine estate event and began explorations on the Vermilion Range. In 1892, he headed a party of thirty men at Mountain Iron and clip a road through the wilderness to Section 22, 58–20. An clever iron ore prospector, he soon discovered the surface indication which led him to take in the existence of extensive ore deposits.