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Andover is a city in Anoka County in the northern Twin Cities suburbs that first organized in 1857 as Round Lake Township.

In 1860 the township renamed itself Grow Township after U.S. Representative Galusha Aaron Grow, an abolitionist and champion of the Homestead Act, spoke in nearby Anoka.

A popular story claims Andover got its name when a train tipped "over and over" off the tracks, but the name actually appeared in an 1899 newspaper article about a new Great Northern Railway station — before any railroad tracks reached the town.

Andover remained a rural township for more than a century, incorporating as a village in 1972 and becoming a city later in the 1970s.

Andover had a population of 32,601 at the 2020 census, living in 10,782 households.

Andover's growth was explosive in the late 20th century: it had just 757 residents in 1950, but grew to 3,830 by 1970 and 26,588 by 2000 as Twin Cities suburbs spread north.

Andover covers 34.83 square miles, making it one of the larger Twin Cities suburbs by land area, with about 2.7% of the city covered by water.

Crooked Lake, on Andover's southern border and shared mostly with neighboring Coon Rapids, is the only fully recreational lake in the city.

Bunker Hills Regional Park, a roughly 1,600-acre Anoka County park spanning Andover and Coon Rapids, is the largest park in the county system and contains Bunker Beach Water Park and the Bunker Hills Golf Club.

The city of Andover itself maintains more than 67 parks and about 41 miles of paths and trails.