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North Oaks is a private residential city in Ramsey County, about 10 miles north of downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.

The land under North Oaks was bought in 1883 by railroad magnate James J. Hill, who built it into North Oaks Farm, a roughly 5,000-acre breeding and hobby farm structured around Pleasant Lake.

After Hill's son Louis died in 1948, his children formed the North Oaks Company and developed the farm into a carefully planned residential community in the 1950s, and the city was incorporated in 1956.

North Oaks is unusual among American cities in that the city government owns no property at all — every lot, road, park and trail is owned by the homeowners themselves.

Each North Oaks property line extends halfway into the street in front of the house, a deed arrangement the Hill family created so that all of the city's roads would be in private ownership.

The North Oaks Home Owners' Association (NOHOA) maintains the city's roads, snow plowing, parks and more than 70 miles of recreation trails.

In May 2008, NOHOA persuaded Google to remove its Street View images of North Oaks, arguing that they violated the city's trespassing ordinance; outsiders may enter the community only by invitation.

The 2020 census counted 5,272 people in North Oaks, up from 4,469 in 2010, and the community has grown to more than 1,800 households.

North Oaks Golf Club opened in 1951 on a course designed by Stanley Thompson and is considered the last golf course Thompson designed in North America; Tom Lehman's design group led a renovation in 2007.

Two surviving buildings of the old Hill farm — the Blacksmith Shop and Machine Shop and the Dairy Building — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, though they are not open to the public because North Oaks is private.