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Anoka ( ə-NOH-kə) is a city in and the county chair of Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 17,142 at the 2010 census. Anoka is the
“Halloween Capital of the World” because it hosted one of the first Halloween parades in 1920. It continues to celebrate the holiday each year when several parades. Anoka is a northern suburb of the Twin Cities. U.S. Highways 10 / 169 and State Highway 47 are three of Anoka’s main routes, and it has a station upon the Northstar Commuter Rail heritage to Minneapolis.

Colonizers first fixed the site that is now Anoka in 1844. By the mid-1850s, Anoka had a school, a addition and a flour mill. In 1856, C. C. Andrews called it a “large and attractive village” and noted that pine logs were floated by the side of the Rum River to sawmills there. The city was formally incorporated in 1878. The name Anoka was derived from two Indian words. The indigenous Dakota used A-NO-KA-TAN-HAN, meaning “on both sides”, or “from both sides”, referring to its location upon the banks of the Rum River. The native Ojibwa used ON-O-KAY, meaning “working waters”.^{[citation needed]}