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Champlin is a northern suburb of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota, lying along the Mississippi River about 18 miles northwest of downtown Minneapolis.

The Champlin area entered recorded history in 1680, when Franciscan explorer-priest Father Louis Hennepin — the man Hennepin County is named for — was held captive by Sioux Indians near what is now Champlin.

Charles Miles made the first permanent settlement in what was called Marshall Township, and in 1859 the township was split into the two towns of Champlin and Dayton.

Champlin is named for U.S. Navy Commodore Stephen Champlin, a hero of the War of 1812 who helped survey the U.S.–Canadian boundary; his daughter married a business partner of Minnesota's first territorial governor, Alexander Ramsey.

Part of Champlin Township incorporated as a village in 1947, and on January 2, 1971, the township and village consolidated to form the modern city of Champlin.

Champlin had 23,919 residents at the 2020 census, living in 8,879 households — a suburban transformation from just 828 people in 1950 and 2,275 in 1970.

Every second weekend in June, Champlin celebrates the Father Hennepin Festival, an annual civic celebration held since 1976 to honor the explorer who passed through the area in 1680.

Champlin students attend Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 schools, including Jackson Middle School in the city, and Champlin Park High School — which was at one point the largest high school in Minnesota.

The Mississippi River is about one-eighth of a mile wide as it flows past Champlin, and U.S. Highway 169 is the city's main arterial route.

Champlin shares a fire department with neighboring Anoka — the Anoka-Champlin Fire Department, a partnership dating to 1985 — which is famous for its tradition of white fire trucks, a nod to the white horses that once pulled Anoka's steam fire engines.