ANOKA, a city of Minnesota, U.S.A., on the Mississippi river and Federal highway io, 27m. N.W. of St. Paul; the county seat of Anoka county. It is served by the Great Northern and the Minneapolis, Anoka and Cuyuna Range (electric) railways. The population was 4,287 in 1920, and was 4,851 in 1930 by the Federal census. Anoka is the trade centre of a farming region and the seat of the State hospital for the insane. Its manufactures include shotgun ammunition, sashes and doors, cheese, dried milk, flour, farm implements and fibre furniture. The city was founded about and incorporated in 1878.