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Akeley (/ˈeɪkli/ AYK-lee) is a city in Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 404 at the 2020 census.

Akeley city overview:
Name:	Akeley city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Minnesota
County:	Hubbard County
Elevation:	1,430 ft (436 m)
Total Area:	1.49 sq mi (3.87 km²)
Land Area:	1.47 sq mi (3.80 km²)
Water Area:	0.03 sq mi (0.07 km²)
Total Population:	404
Population Density:	275.02/sq mi (106.19/km²)
ZIP code:	56433
Area code:	218
FIPS code:	2700496
GNISfeature ID:	0655094
Website:	akeleymn.com

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History

The city of Akeley was incorporated on December 30, 1916. It was largely developed by a partnership between lumber magnate T. B. Walker and Healy C. Akeley, who formed the Red River Lumber Company in 1893. General settlement of Akeley began in 1895. After Walker built a sawmill in 1902, Akeley’s development skyrocketed. The mill was once the largest in the state of Minnesota. Thomas B. Walker had intended to build the mill in what would later become Walker, Minnesota, but chose Akeley instead because of his wife’s disapproval of the bars and brothels in the Walker area.

Because of the mill, and the train depot built in 1899, Akeley became a boomtown. Lumberjacks came and went on every freight train. The population swelled from 2,000 to over 3,500 between 1907 and 1908. Now the town has fewer than 500 residents.

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Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.50 square miles (3.88 km), of which 1.47 square miles (3.81 km) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km) is water.