Proctor is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

[4] The city was established as Proctorknott in 1894, with the name coming from former Kentucky Governor J. Proctor Knott.

Knott was famous for delivering the speech The Untold Delights of Duluth to the U.S. House of Representatives.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 3.00 square miles (7.77 km2), all land.

[6] Proctor is adjacent to Duluth's Bayview Heights neighborhood, with which it forms something of a contiguous community unit due to Bayview Heights' topographical separation (the hill) from adjacent West Duluth.

It is bounded by the city of Hermantown to the north, Midway Township to the west, Bayview Heights to the east, and a mostly undeveloped area of Duluth (officially in the Riverside neighborhood) to the south.

19.8% were of German, 17.9% Norwegian, 10.3% Swedish, 7.3% French, 7.0% Finnish, 6.2% Polish, 6.0% Irish and 5.4% Italian ancestry.

Proctor is the starting point for the Blackwoods Blizzard Tour, an annual snowmobile ride around northern Minnesota that raises money to fight ALS.

The organization raises over $1 million every year for ALS research, making it the largest snowmobile fundraiser in the world.

It encompasses Proctor, Duluth's Bayview Heights neighborhood, and Canosia, Grand Lake, Midway, and Solway townships.