Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Blaine, MN

Blaine is a fast-growing city in Anoka County, Minnesota, that also extends slightly into Ramsey County - it is about 13 miles north of Minneapolis.

Blaine Township was organized in 1877 after separating from Anoka, and it was named for James G. Blaine, the Maine senator and three-time presidential candidate - board chairman Moses Ripley, himself a Maine native, persuaded the board to choose the name.

Blaine's first permanent resident was Greenberry Chambers, who arrived in 1865 - a formerly enslaved man who moved north from Barren County, Kentucky, after the Civil War.

Blaine's only natural lake, 77-acre Laddie Lake, carries a misspelled version of the name of Irish settler Phillip Leddy.

Blaine stayed nearly empty for decades because its sandy soil and wetlands discouraged farming - the township had just 128 people in 1880, when the area was known mainly as prime hunting ground.

Blaine incorporated as a city on January 29, 1954, just before a postwar housing boom transformed it.

The boom was dramatic: Blaine grew from 20,573 people in 1970 to 70,222 in the 2020 census, making it Minnesota's 10th-largest city, with 25,172 households and a median age of 37.5.

For several years Blaine led the entire Twin Cities metro in new home construction, and developers built The Lakes of Blaine using a sand-mining technique - excavating ponds and using the sand to raise the peat-sod land for building.

Blaine is home to the National Sports Center, a complex with more than 50 full-size soccer fields and an eight-sheet ice arena billed as the largest of its kind in the world, plus the Victory Links Golf Course.

Minnesota's professional soccer teams played at the National Sports Center for 23 years, and Minnesota United FC called it home until the club's promotion to Major League Soccer in 2017 - it remains the club's training facility.