Ham Lake is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States.

Minnesota State Highway 65 serves as a main route in the city.

Some of the inhabitants barely escaped with their lives, saving only a few household goods.

The Scandinavian settlers found it difficult to pronounce "Glen Carey".

[9] Early settlers found the soil well-suited to farming as it was not as rocky as Scandinavia's.

The pioneer farmers soon found the soil suited to growing potatoes and this became an important commodity for both cash sales and trading.

From the early 1900s through the 1930s, potato farming was at its peak in what was then Ham Lake Township.

Some of the farms remaining today are the sod farms in southeastern Ham Lake, where the ground is low and the soil black and heavy, making it well suited to this crop, as well as corn and potatoes in some places.

In 1894, when the population was over 400, a group of farmers formed a cooperative and built a creamery.

As in many small American communities, over time all the "old" families became related through marriage.

Ham Lake officially became a city on January 8, 1974, with Hentges serving as the first mayor.

13.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.