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Minnetrista is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. Largely rural, Minnetrista has agricultural activity involving corn, soybeans, hay and horses. In addition to farmland and woods, the city is home to several lakes, including part of Lake Minnetonka, the state’s ninth-biggest.

Minnetrista’s name originates in the Dakota language, in which minne means “water” and trista means “crooked.” The population was 6,384 at the 2010 census. It is about 23 miles (37 km) west of Minneapolis, the county seat and the Minnesota’s largest city. Minnetrista is often described as on the boundary between the suburban Twin Cities and rural Greater Minnesota.

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Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 30.76 square miles (79.67 km), of which 25.82 square miles (66.87 km) is land and 4.94 square miles (12.79 km) is water. The city is entirely in Hennepin County. County Roads 15, 44, 92, and 110 are its main routes.

Lakes in Minnetrista include Whaletail Lake, Little Long Lake, Mud Lake, Ox Yoke Lake, and Saunders Lake, as well as several bays of Lake Minnetonka. Six Mile Creek runs through the western part of the city and brings the runoff from about 17,000 acres (69 km) to Lake Minnetonka.

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