Floodwood is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. Population was 528 at the 2010 census.
Originally a logging community, it was a dairy community for most of it history, but could now be best described as a bedroom community, since most of its working population finds employ in nearby Duluth, Grand Rapids, Hibbing and Cloquet. The city describes itself as “The Catfish Capital of the World”, a nickname it gave to itself following the introduction of the community’s annual Catfish Days festival.
U.S. Highway 2 and State Highway 73 are two of the main arterial routes in the city.
Long before the city of Floodwood existed, its strategic location at the intersection of the East Savanna River with the Saint Louis River made what would later become the city of Floodwood a strategic economic location. The Savanna Portage was a major route for transportation in the southern Arrowhead, but its importance was magnified greatly with the arrival of European fur traders, who used…
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