Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Hopkins, MN

Hopkins is a small suburban city of about four square miles in Hennepin County, just west of Minneapolis and completely surrounded by the larger suburbs of Minnetonka, St. Louis Park and Edina.

The first non-indigenous settlers arrived in Hopkins in 1852, when land around the growing Minneapolis-Saint Paul area was opening up to soldiers and settlers from Fort Snelling.

Hopkins really took off in 1887, when the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company built a large plant there; the company later became Minneapolis-Moline, a major manufacturer of tractors and farm equipment in the United States until the 1960s.

Hopkins was incorporated in 1893 as the Village of West Minneapolis, and in 1928 it was renamed Hopkins after Harley H. Hopkins, one of its first homesteaders and its first postmaster, who had let the railroad build its depot on his land.

Hopkins adopted a city charter on December 2, 1947, officially becoming a city, with the new government taking effect on January 1, 1948.

The 2020 census counted 19,079 people in Hopkins, making it one of the more densely settled inner-ring suburbs of Minneapolis.

According to the Census Bureau's QuickFacts, Hopkins has about 9,547 households, and only about 36.5% of its homes are owner-occupied - unusually for a suburb, most Hopkins residents rent.

Downtown Hopkins is built around a Mainstreet (spelled as one word locally) whose historic commercial district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2022 as the Hopkins Commercial Historic District.

Hopkins celebrates its agricultural past with the Hopkins Raspberry Festival, founded in 1935 to boost business during the Great Depression and still held on the third weekend of July; at its peak, the Hopkins area had more than 800 acres planted in raspberries.

A sculpture of the World's Largest Raspberry, created by artist Allen Christian and installed in 1990, stands in downtown Hopkins as a tribute to the raspberry farms that once surrounded the town.