Oakdale is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States.

It is a suburb of Saint Paul and is on the eastern side of the Twin Cities Metropolitan area.

Tartan Senior High School is within the city's boundaries, and serves the southern half of Oakdale.

At Tilsen Park, the 45th Parallel runs directly through the baseball field's home plate.

[6] Oakdale was named for a grove of oak trees near the original town site.

Arthur Stephen suggested the name "OakDale" at the first town meeting on November 1, 1858.

In 1839, when Arthur was nine years old, the Stephen family came to America and settled in Knox County, Illinois.

His father was a schoolteacher and young Arthur learned the trade of bricklayer.

Other main routes in the community include Minnesota State Highway 36, and Hadley Avenue North which Oakdale designates its "signature street" since it is the primary street running the length of the city.

28.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

25.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The Oakdale Dump is listed as an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site due to the contamination of residential drinking water wells with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and heavy metals.