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Isanti is a city in southern Isanti County in east-central Minnesota, where Minnesota State Highway 65 and Isanti County Road 5 are the main routes.

The name Isanti is composed of two Dakota words — 'isan,' meaning knife, and 'ati,' meaning camp — and refers to the Santee Dakota people who once lived in the region.

Isanti's motto is 'A Community for Generations.'

Isanti had 6,804 residents at the 2020 census, living in 2,458 households, and it is a notably young city: the median age was just 31.8 years and about 30% of residents were under 18.

Isanti was a tiny railroad-era village for most of its history — just 316 people in 1910 and 411 in 1920 — before exploding in the exurban era, more than doubling from 2,324 people in 2000 to 5,251 in 2010.

In the 1920s, Isanti's economy rested on farm processing: the village had a starch factory, a potato flour mill, a creamery, two grain elevators and two banks.

The Rum River, one of central Minnesota's best-known canoeing and fishing rivers, flows along Isanti's western edge.

Isanti County itself was created on February 13, 1857, and Swedish immigrants settled it so heavily that by 1895 nearly 4,300 of the county's roughly 11,000 residents had been born in Sweden.

The Minnesota Owls, a Tier III junior hockey team in the Minnesota Junior Hockey League, were based in Isanti for more than 20 seasons.

Olympic artistic gymnast Grace McCallum comes from Isanti.