Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Lino Lakes, MN

Lino Lakes is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, an outer suburb north of the Twin Cities crossed by both Interstate 35W and Interstate 35E.

Before European settlers arrived, the Dakota people lived around the cluster of lakes now called Baldwin, Rice, Reshanau, Marshan, George Watch, Centerville, Peltier and Rondeau, a land of plenty with abundant wild rice and small game, and several Native American burial grounds remain in the area.

European settlers began arriving around 1850, forming three loosely knit communities in what became Centerville Township — a "German settlement" west of the lakes, a "Swede settlement" to the south and a "French settlement" to the east.

The area's first local government, Centerville Township, was organized on August 11, 1857, and covered 36 square miles.

The Village of Lino Lakes was incorporated on May 11, 1955, covering the original Centerville Township except the Village of Centerville, with 21,000 acres of land and 1,800 citizens, after residents voted to incorporate to stop neighboring villages from annexing township land.

Lino Lakes became a city in 1972, when the Minnesota Legislature changed all of the state's villages into cities.

The origin of the word "Lino" in the city's name is unknown, though a Lino post office operated for about 10 years in the late 1800s.

Lino Lakes had a population of 21,399 at the 2020 census, an enormous rise from just 745 residents in 1940 and 11,791 in 2000, and the 2020 census counted 6,957 households in the city.

The city covers 33.21 square miles, of which almost 5 square miles is water, and only 44 percent of its land was developed as of 2010.

Rice Creek flows through Lino Lakes, and the Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Regional Park Reserve, an Anoka County park reserve built around the chain of lakes, is located in the city.