Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Long Lake, MN

Long Lake is a small Hennepin County city of just 0.93 square miles, named for the lake at its eastern end and entirely surrounded by the city of Orono.

U.S. Highway 12 runs through Long Lake, which serves as a commercial hub for the surrounding Lake Minnetonka–area communities.

The first permanent settlement came in May 1855, when the Fleming and Knettle families from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, founded 'Cumberland Town' with a sawmill, a general store and a schoolhouse.

Long Lake's first post office, opened in 1856, was named Tamarack for the tamarack swamps in the area.

A sawmill followed in 1866, the railroad arrived in 1868, a school district was organized in 1869, and a flour mill and hotel were built in 1875.

The late 1890s and early 1900s were Long Lake's 'berry years': the Minnesota Fruit Growers Association was founded in Long Lake in 1898 to promote strawberry and raspberry growing, and local berries were shipped as far as Fargo and Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Residents incorporated Long Lake as a village in 1906, largely to stop the railroad depot from being moved away.

Union Cemetery, begun in 1861, stands on Teepee Hill, the site of an Ojibwe encampment in 1859–60.

The 2020 census counted 1,741 residents in 737 households in Long Lake; the city is classified as entirely urban, and its population peaked at 1,984 in 1990.

Long Lake hosts the entire Orono Public Schools campus (District 278) on Old Crystal Bay Road — Schumann Elementary, Orono Intermediate, Orono Middle School and Orono High School, whose Spartans enroll nearly 1,000 students — even though the district carries neighboring Orono's name.