Redtop (also spelled Red Top) is an unincorporated community in Idun Township, Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States.

Disclaimer: Much of the information gathered and used in this article is from personal histories of past and a couple of current residents of Red Top.

It is located in Section 29 of Idun Township in southern Aitkin County, about 4 miles due east of Mille Lacs Lake.

A team of company surveyors laid out the lots with tamarack stakes in the summer of 1908, making it the southernmost subdivision in Aitkin County.

The unincorporated community of Red Top officially came to exist on August 6, 1908, when the Aitkin County Board of Commissioners approved the plat and ordered it filed.

The popular legend is that the community is named after Olivia Matilda Erickson, the red-haired Swedish immigrant girl who worked as a cook at various enterprises undertaken by members of the Haggberg families.

Ultimately Olivia Erickson married Julius Olson, and moved to the Pine City area, where she lived to age 90 and a month.

), a Freight Warehouse, Norwegian Lutheran Church, Stockyard, American Legion Hall, several other buildings, and a number of houses.

The people who lived around Red Top were mostly first and second generation immigrants, very often from Scandinavia, worked hard and didn't have much money.

During one of the Influenza epidemics of the late ‘teens, Rudolph Haggberg walked into the hotel and announced, “I’ve brought a flu stop today!” Everyone looked to see, and sure enough, it was!

A wind sock on a tamarack pole was the “control tower.” Much to the consternation of Oscar Anderson, the flight path was directly over his store.

In the end, after the timber ran out, after the crop farmers gave up raising potatoes, and after the automobile made it possible to travel more easily, there was no need for small towns that were very close together.