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Welcome to the Apple Valley Home page. The Apple Valley Home page provides as much information as possible on Apple Valley. Knowing Apple Valley’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Apple Valley’s Home page, you will also find Apple Valley’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Apple Valley has a population of 53728. 49.1% of Apple Valley’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.9 are female. 56.1% of Apple Valley is married and 77.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $270,742, and the average rent is $1,396. Household median income in Apple Valley is $90,162, and the individual median income is $45,180. Apple Valley’s Ethnic is the following: White(75%), Black(8.9%), Multiple(7%), Asian(6.6%), Hispanic(6.1%), Other(2.3%), Native(0.2%).


The area that became Apple Valley was first established in 1858 as Lebanon Township, and remained a farming community for nearly a century. In the mid-1950s, residential developments started replacing farmland. Orrin Thompson, a real estate developer, was responsible for the city's early development.


He contracted a company to determine where the next growth in the Twin Cities would be. It was 0.5 miles (1 km) from County Road 42 and Cedar Avenue. Thompson bought the first houses and streets from the Brobacks, who built the city's first four houses. The firm that selected this area was in Apple Valley, California, so Thompson took that name for the development.


An alternate explanation for the name change exists, however. According to local developer Henry Broback, Lebanon Township was renamed Apple Valley because "...when you drive east on (County Road) 42 and turn to enter Lebanon, it reminded them of Apple Valley, California, which was a nice community."Voters in the township voted to incorporate in the 1968 general election.


They also selected the name Apple Valley over the name Lebanon Valley by a vote of 1376 to 757.


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