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Eagan ( EE-ghin) is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. It is south of Saint Paul and lies on the south bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from its confluence with the Mississippi River. The population was 68,855 at the 2020 census. Eagan and the other nearby suburbs form the southern section of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. == History == Eagan was named for Patrick Eagan, who was the first chairman of the town board of supervisors. He farmed a 220-acre (0.89 km2) parcel of land near the present-day town hall. Eagan (born 1811) and his wife Margaret Twohy (born 1816) emigrated from County Tipperary, Ireland to Troy, New York, where they married in 1843. They arrived in Mendota circa 1853–54, before settling in the Eagan area. Eagan was settled as an Irish farming community and "Onion Capital of the United States". Its largest growth took place after Highway 77 was relocated and expanded and a six-lane bridge (with three northbound and three southbound lanes) was constructed over the Minnesota River in 1980 and the final Interstate 35E freeway section southbound from Minnesota State Highway 110 in Mendota Heights to the area where it joins 35W in Burnsville was completed in the mid-1980s.