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• • • Anoka County Multi - Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan Dairy farmers and a horse stable /riding academy previously used Land in Hilltop. A small community of "trailer camps" developed in the 1940's. Owners of the camps organized members of the community accomplished incorporation as a city in 1956. Hilltop is a predominantly residential community with a population of 766. Hilltop is a low - income community. Hilltop is fully developed and as such, no significant growth in population, number of households or business is projected. In addition to being completely surrounded by one other city, Hilltop's signature is manufactured housing, which accounts for 63% of the housing stock. There are also apartments, condominiums and site -built homes. Hilltop's modest commercial areas are comprised entirely of small retail and business establishments including, but not limited to the following: drug stores, liquor store, restaurants, car sales, insurance sales, dental offices, barber shops /salons, flooring store, exercise studio, tobacco store, hardware store, electronics store and a grocery store. City of Lexington Lexington is located at Latitude 45.14 N and Longitude -93.17 W in Anoka County, Minnesota and has a land area of .7 square miles with an elevation of 909 feet. The City of Lexington is geographically one of the smallest communities in Anoka County. It covers only 440 acres and is located in south central Anoka County. The city of Blaine surrounds Lexington on three sides, the north, the south and the west. The city of Circle Pines borders the east side of Lexington. Lexington was originally a paper town on the Rum River beginning about 1855 in sections 26 and 35 of what was then Blaine Township (T. 31, R. 23) and not developed at that time. The City of Lexington was originally agricultural. The first development in the community started in the 1940's. The community was officially incorporated as the City of Lexington May 12, 1950 with a population of 569. City of Lino Lakes Lino Lakes is located in the southeast corner of Anoka County, Minnesota, has an elevation of 880 feet and covers an area of 33 square miles on the north side of the Twin Cities in Anoka County at Latitude 45.17 N and Longitude -93.10 W. The pristine 2,700 - acre Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Regional Park Reserve is situated within the heart of the city, guaranteeing the area will maintain its natural settings and habitats for wildlife for years to come. When the first settlers arrived in the area, Native Americans had already been making their home in the area where Reshanau, Baldwin, Rice and Marshan Lakes cluster. The Dakota Indians found this to be a land of plenty with wild rice and an abundance of small game. Today, several Indian burial grounds are still located in the area. White hunters and trappers began coming to this area from both Canada and the eastern states around 1850. Those who settled on the west side of the lake had names like Ramsden, Speiser and Wenzel. Families including the Cardinals, LaMottes, Houles and Dupres settled the east side of the lake. Many of their descendants still live in the area today. The first unit of local government in the area was the township of Centerville. It was organized August 11, 1857 and encompassed an area of 36 square miles. The population was less than 300 persons and organized into three loosely knit communities known as the "German