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Mayer is a city in Carver County on the South Fork of the Crow River.

A post office was first established here in 1875 under the name Helvetia; railroad officials renamed the community Mayer in 1888.

Mayer was one of Minnesota's fastest-growing small cities in the 2000s, jumping from 554 residents in 2000 to 1,749 in 2010 — an increase of 215.7% in a single decade.

The 2020 census counted 2,453 people in 800 households in Mayer, and a remarkable 50.0% of its households included children under 18.

With a median age of just 32.3 years in 2020, Mayer is an unusually young community, matching its motto, 'A Rising Community.'

Minnesota Highway 25 is Mayer's main route, and Highway 7 passes just nearby.

Baseball has been played in Mayer for nearly a century — the village council rented lots at Thomas Slough for ballgames as early as 1906 — and the Mayer Blazers amateur club organized in the early 1930s, bought its field in 1934 and began league play in 1935.

The Mayer Blazers have reached the Minnesota state amateur baseball tournament seven times since 1943, finishing second in the 1945 Class A tournament and third in 1973.

Clarence Guetzkow, a driving force behind the Blazers and the Crow River Valley League, was inducted into the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.

Mayer Lutheran High School, a private Christian school that has been preparing Christian leaders since 1961, draws its students from more than 50 surrounding communities.