{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Meriden |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |nickname = |motto =
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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 55060 and 56093 |area_code = 507 |blank_name = GNIS feature ID |blank_info = 647776<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|647776|Meriden, Minnesota}}</ref> |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Meriden''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɛər|ɪ|d|ə|n}} {{respell|MAIR|id|ən}})<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ap.org/minnesota/prono.html |title=Minnesota Pronunciation Guide |website=Associated Press |access-date=July 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722194213/http://www.ap.org/minnesota/prono.html |archive-date=July 22, 2011 }}</ref> is an unincorporated community in Meriden Township, Steele County, Minnesota, United States, near Owatonna and Waseca. The community is located along SW 92nd Avenue (County 18) near SW 13th Street.
==History== Meriden was laid out in 1867.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n550 533]}}</ref> The community was named after Meriden, Connecticut, the native home of a first settler.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA101|year=1908|page=101}}</ref> The Meriden post office was discontinued in 1992.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Steele&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Steele County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=1 March 2015}}</ref>
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