Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Osseo, MN

Osseo is a small city in northeastern Hennepin County, Minnesota — a compact community of only about three-quarters of a square mile wedged between the much larger suburbs of Brooklyn Park and Maple Grove.

Osseo's roots go back to 1852, when French-Canadian fur trader Pierre Bottineau named the area Bottineau Prairie and the first settlement there was called Palestine.

Part of the town was platted as Osseo in 1856, alongside a rival plat called the 'City of Attraction' that was later absorbed into Osseo.

Osseo incorporated on March 17, 1875, and remained a village for nearly a century before becoming a statutory city in 1972.

Osseo's population was 2,688 at the 2020 census; in 2010 the census counted 2,430 people living in 1,128 households.

The Osseo Water Tower, built in 1915, still stands over downtown and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

Boerboom Veterans Park, across from Osseo City Hall, holds veterans' memorials dating back to a large granite Civil War monument erected in 1937, and the park was named in 1957 for Father Boerboom, a longtime local pastor and school principal.

A bandshell in Boerboom Park hosts free concerts on Tuesday evenings through the summer, each followed by a movie at dusk.

The Osseo Lions Roar, the city's annual community festival run by the Lions Club, takes over downtown on the weekend after Labor Day, with a Saturday parade that ends at Osseo Senior High School.

Despite being completely surrounded by suburbs many times its size, Osseo has kept its own small-town main street along Central Avenue, where community parades are still held.