Floodwood, MN

Floodwood is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The 2025 census counted 518 residents. The city calls itself "The Catfish Capital of the World", a nickname it gave itself following the introduction of its annual Catfish Days festival. U.S. Highway 2 and State Highway 73 are two of the main routes in Floodwood. The short version is that Floodwood carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Floodwood: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Long before Floodwood existed, the intersection of the East Savanna River with the Saint Louis River made what later became Floodwood a strategic economic location. Floodwood sits at the junction of U.S. Highway 2 and Minnesota State Highway 73. Floodwood is roughly halfway between Duluth and Grand Rapids along U.S. Highway 2 and roughly halfway between Hibbing and Moose Lake along State Highway 73.