Savage (/ˈsævɪdʒ/ SAV-ij) is a suburban city 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Scott County in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

[4] Minnesota State Highway 13 and County Road 42 are two of the main routes in Savage.

The landing point for Irish and Scottish immigrants in 1800, Savage has grown into a developing bedroom community, absorbing population growth from Burnsville, its larger neighbor to the east.

Once a shipbuilding port for the U.S. Navy, Savage is now an industrial manufacturing job center in the southern metro.

[6] The city is still relatively undeveloped, with sections of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge and Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve within its borders.

Previously named Hamilton after the city in Ontario, Canada, the town was renamed Savage after Marion Willis Savage, who owned and trained the nationally celebrated racing horse Dan Patch.

Dakota used the Minnesota River valley region including present-day Savage for fish, game, boating and camping.

William Byrne, who immigrated from County Kilkenny, Ireland, to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1840, arrived in the area shortly after, via steamboat from Fort Snelling.

Already established in business and trade, he and other Irish and Scottish settlers built Hamilton Landing, a port for boats, named after the city he immigrated to in Canada.

The Chicago & North Western (present day Union Pacific Railroad) railway line reached the site in 1865, and in 1866 the town gained a post office.

[12] The roughly 17 blocks of the late 19th-century town remain as Savage's downtown along Highway 13 (Minnesota).

About 3,500 people were employed during peak production resulting in 18 auxiliary oil and gas carriers and 4 tugboats constructed.

[6][14]Savage remained undeveloped in the postwar housing boom, isolated by the Minnesota River and without a direct interstate connection.

[26] Savage is in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by Angie Craig, a Democrat.