Mendota (/mɛnˈdoʊtə/ men-DOH-tə)[4] is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States.

The town was one of the first permanent European-American settlements in the state of Minnesota, being founded around the same time as Fort Snelling.

It is also the location of the Sibley Historic Site with two of the earliest known stone buildings in the State of Minnesota, the Henry Hastings Sibley house, the Faribault house, and other buildings associated with the American Fur Company, all dating from the 1830s,[6] and the Dupuis House, the first red brick house in Mendota, built in 1854 by Hypolite Dupuis for his wife, Angelique (Renville) Dupuis and his large, growing Dakota mixed-blood family.

Hypolite Dupuis arrived in Mendota sometime between 1840, and 1842 and began clerking for Sibley.

Their present community came into existence after the United States Congress passed appropriation acts for the "Sioux in Minnesota" in the 1880s and 1890s.

[12] The city of Mendota is located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers.

26.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 2.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

28.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.