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Tracy
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Overview
Tracy is a city in Lyon County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,076 based on the 2020 census.
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History
Tracy was platted in 1875. It was named for John F. Tracy, a railroad official. A post office called Tracy has been in operation since 1877. The city was incorporated in 1893. On June 13, 1968, Tracy was hit by an F5 tornado, killing nine people and injuring 150. Until the 1960s, Tracy was a highly active railroad town on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway as a concentration point for numerous branch lines in the area serving heavy agriculture. Today, Tracy holds an annual late summer festival called "Boxcar Days," which takes place Labor Day weekend as a sign of the railroad's influence on the town.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.
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- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library