Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Farmington, MN

Farmington is a city in Dakota County, south of the Twin Cities, that began in the early 1850s as the village of Dakota City in Empire Township, at the crossing of railroads and the Vermillion River.

Farmington got its name by accident: the local train station was called Farmington Station, non-residents kept calling the town Farmington instead of Dakota City, and the new name stuck permanently.

Farmington received its village charter in 1872, making it the second-oldest incorporated community in Dakota County after the county seat, Hastings.

The Dakota County Fair moved to Farmington in 1869, and the city still hosts it on a 360-acre fairgrounds — the largest county fairgrounds in Minnesota by area.

The Dakota County Fair in Farmington draws the largest county fair attendance in Minnesota, averaging about 125,000 visitors a year.

On November 22, 1879, the Great Fire of Farmington destroyed several houses, stores, a hotel, and a grain elevator downtown after a firework cart was knocked over in a buggy accident.

Farmington High School graduated its first class in 1884, and in 1897 Farmington became one of the first communities in the United States to offer rural free mail delivery.

Farmington had a population of 23,632 at the 2020 census, living in 7,906 households — the city more than doubled from 12,365 residents in 2000 to 21,086 in 2010.

Three Farmington buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Daniel F. Akin House, the Church of the Advent, and the Exchange Bank Building.

Farmington hosts the Federal Aviation Administration's Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center, known by the call sign ZMP, which manages high-altitude air traffic over the Upper Midwest.