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Anoka County 2019 Multi-Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan 61 Blaine The City of Blaine has eleven industrial parks, competitive land costs, a strong labor pool, and excellent freeway and highway access. With the development of Interstate 35-W, State Highway 65, and State Highway 10, Blaine's accessibility to the Twin Cities was greatly improved. Because of this, Blaine has become a very attractive location for business and residential development. Blaine has attracted many new corporate residents, such as the Aveda Corporation, Bermo, Dayton Rogers Manufacturing, Infinite Campus, ParaMetrics, General Pattern, and Carley Foundry - Blaine is also home to the National Sports Center, an Olympic class training facility, as well as home to a Tournament Players Club golf course. Transportation infrastructure includes Blaine Airport, Interstate 35W, State Highway 10, and State Highway 65. Blaine has a strong and growing industrial and commercial business sector. Blaine is home to nearly 1800 businesses. The city has a Federal Post Office, a State National Sports Center and Anoka County Human Service Center, two libraries and a county license bureau. Utilities include four water towers, one water reservoir, three water treatment plant, two power transfer stations, seventeen wells, two natural gas odorizing station, natural gas pipelines, bulk fuel transfer pipelines, city sewer and water, household hazardous waste collection site and five solid waste transfer stations. The city has a City Hall/Police Department building, a senior center, four fire stations, five senior apartment buildings, a public works facility and twelve schools. Three school districts cover the City of Blaine. They are Independent School District #11, #12 and #16. There are six large childcare centers and three large medical clinics. The closest hospital is located five miles from the city border in the City of Fridley. Recreation includes a private golf course, the TPC of the Twin Cities and over 62 parks and 81 miles of trails. Blaine is host to two large national spectator events. The USA Cup and the 3M Championships. These events draw several hundred thousand spectators each year. City of Nowthen City of Nowthen has 55 miles of roads with 26 miles being gravel and 29 miles of blacktop. Burns has a heavily traveled county road (Anoka County Road #22) running east and west through the community and running north and south is Anoka County Road #5. Three different school districts (Independent School District # 11, # 15 & # 728) cover City of Nowthen. There are no hospitals, clinics or care facilities within City of Nowthen. Currently City of Nowthen is contracted with Ramsey Fire Department and Oak Grove Fire Department for fire protection. City of Nowthen is covered by the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office on a 911 emergency basis. Connexus Energy handles utilities for City of Nowthen for electric power along with a small portion of the community having natural gas by Center Point Energy. A large portion of the community uses propane gas. Century Link provides telephone service. The City of Nowthen is located in the northwest corner of Anoka County. With the cities of Elk River, Ramsey, Oak Grove and St. Francis surrounding Nowthen we are joining the fast- growing communities of Northern Anoka County. With County Road 22 (Viking Blvd.) running completely through our community (east and west), and Highway 47 running north and south through Nowthen, we are easily accessible from all directions. Major retail shops and stores are just a few minutes away in Elk River and Ramsey. According to the 2010 Local Population Counts and Census, Nowthen is estimated to have 4,443 residents and 1,494 households. Household size averaged 3.10 persons per household.