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Fridley is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 29,590 at the 2020 census. [3] It was first settled as a place named Manomin where Rice Creek flows into the Mississippi river and the Red River Oxcart trail crosses the creek. Fridley was incorporated in 1949 as a village and became a city in 1957.
Manomin county was created when the Fridley township sections were split from Ramsey County, on May 23, 1857. [9] The county seat was Manomin (present-day Fridley). Another former county, Buchanan County, was created in Minnesota on the same day. Manomin County was disbanded in 1858 and administratively attached to St. Louis County, Minnesota. [1]
Anoka County (/ ə ˈ n oʊ k ə / ə-NOH-kə) [2] is the fourth-most populous county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.As of the 2020 census, its population was 363,887. [3] The county seat and namesake of the county is the city of Anoka, [4] which is derived from the Dakota word anoka meaning "on (or from) both sides", referring to its location on both banks of the Rum River.
Six of these names still exist. With the foundation of Kittson County on March 9, 1878, Pembina County no longer existed. [1] When Minnesota was organized as a state, 57 of the present 87 counties were established. The last county to be created was Lake of the Woods County in 1923. [2]
It covers eastern Hennepin County, including the entire city of Minneapolis, along with parts of Anoka and Ramsey counties. Besides Minneapolis, major cities in the district include Brooklyn Center, St. Louis Park, Richfield, Crystal, Robbinsdale, Golden Valley, New Hope, Fridley, and a small portion of Edina.
County Road 6 begins at East River Road (County 1) in Fridley. [1] It goes as Mississippi Street until Central Ave (County 35) and goes southbound with County Road 35 until Rice Creek Road, where it turns east-bound and remains so until the Ramsey County line, becoming Ramsey County Road 11. [6] County Road 6 is 2.53 miles (4.07 km) in length. [4]
The Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 is a school district in Minnesota, northwest of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.The district serves 13 communities: All of Anoka, Champlin and Coon Rapids, and parts of Andover, Blaine, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Dayton, Fridley, Ham Lake, Nowthen, Oak Grove and Ramsey.
The FMC Corporation (Fridley Plant) is a United States Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site of 18 acres (7.3 ha) in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States, several hundred feet east of the Mississippi River. Solvents, paint sludge, and plating wastes were generated and disposed of in an on-site dump from the 1940s until 1969.