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Rogers is a fast-growing city in northwestern Hennepin County, Minnesota, a northwest suburb of the Twin Cities that straddles Interstate 94, with the Crow River touching its western boundary.

Rogers got its start in the 1880s when Thomas Rogers sold an acre of his Hassan Township land to the Great Northern Railroad for a single dollar so a depot could be built, and a community grew up around the depot and St. Martin Catholic Church and school.

Rogers was incorporated in 1914, but it stayed a small farming town for decades — it had only about 190 residents in 1920 and 698 as late as 1990.

The construction of Interstate 94 through Rogers in 1972 transformed it, bringing major employers such as Graco, CDI, Department 56 and Reinhart Foodservice and triggering rapid suburban growth.

On January 1, 2012, Rogers annexed all of the surrounding Hassan Township — Hennepin County's very last township — pushing the city's population above 11,000 and its area to about 26 square miles.

Rogers had 13,295 residents at the 2020 census, living in 4,534 households — a dramatic rise from just 3,588 people in 2000.

Rogers is one of the more affluent Twin Cities suburbs: Census Bureau survey estimates put its median household income at about $154,611, with an average of nearly three people per household.

On September 16, 2006, an F2 tornado tore through Rogers, damaging homes along an eight-mile path, injuring six people and killing one resident.

Rogers High School, home of the Royals, was ranked 29th among Minnesota high schools by U.S. News & World Report in 2023, and the city is served by the Elk River Area School District (ISD 728).

One of Rogers' founding-family businesses still operates today: Otto Scharber's John Deere implement dealership, started by a prominent early merchant, remains in family hands.