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Anoka (/ ə ˈ n oʊ k ə / ə-NOH-kə) [6] is a city in and the county seat of Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 17,142 at the 2010 census. [7] Anoka is the "Halloween Capital of the World" because it hosted one of the first Halloween parades in 1920. [1] It continues to celebrate the holiday each year with several ...
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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.
List of tz database time zones. The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2024b of the tz database. [2]
Lino Lakes (/ ˈ l aɪ n oʊ ˈ l eɪ k s / LY-noh LAYKS) is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 21,399 at the 2020 census. [3] Interstates 35W and 35E are two of Lino Lakes's main routes. It is an outer suburb north of the Twin Cities. [6]
Time zones of the world. A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.
In 1860 after an Anoka, Minnesota speech by U.S. Representative Galusha Aaron Grow from Pennsylvania who was an abolitionist and a major figure in the Homestead Act, the town name was changed to Grow Township. [7] Ham Lake Township split from Andover, known as Grow Township at the time, in 1871. [8]
The Mississippi River forms the eastern boundary of the city, separating it from Coon Rapids and Fridley in Anoka County. Interstates 94 and 694 are located in the far southern portion of Brooklyn Park. U.S. Route 169 is located near the western part of the city.