Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Cloquet, MN

Cloquet is a city in Carlton County at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33, and part of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation, for which it serves as one of three administrative centers.

Cloquet's Ojibwe name is Mookomaan-Onigamiing.

Cloquet began as a group of small settlements around three sawmills - Shaw Town, Nelson Town and Johnson Town - which became known as Knife Falls after a local waterfall over sharp slate rocks.

The area was platted in 1883, the village of Cloquet was incorporated in 1884, and it became a city in 1904.

The 1918 Cloquet Fire destroyed much of the town and killed 453 people, one of the deadliest disasters in Minnesota history.

Cloquet is famed in American economic history as home of the nation's strongest consumers' cooperative: the Cloquet Cooperative Society, founded in 1910, had 4,262 members by the mid-1950s out of a population of only 8,500.

The 2020 census counted 12,568 people in Cloquet, making it the largest city in Carlton County.

Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 put Cloquet at about 5,326 households, and about 65.9% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Cloquet's economy remains centered on wood products and paper manufacturing, anchored by the Sappi paper mill.

Cloquet is home to Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, a collaboration between the Fond du Lac Band and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.