Carver is a small city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States along the banks of the Minnesota River. The city is named after early explorer Jonathan Carver. The downtown area is home to the Carver Historic District, a nationally recognized collection of historically significant local buildings.
Broadway, downtown Carver
Temperance Hotel (1857)
Typical residence in the historic district
Minnesota Valley Oil Company Gas Station (1925)
Carver County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The county is mostly farmland and wilderness with many unincorporated townships. As of the 2020 census, the population was 106,922. Its county seat is Chaska. Carver County is named for explorer Jonathan Carver, who in 1766–67, traveled from Boston to the Minnesota River and wintered among the Sioux near the site of New Ulm. Carver County is part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Carver County Sheriff's Office and Justice Center in Chaska, Minnesota
Lake Waconia
Soils of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum area
Soils of Carver County