Farmington is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 23,632 at the 2020 census. It is a allowance of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.

Settlers began arriving in Empire Township, in which Farmington grew, in the forward 1850s. The village of Dakota City began roughly speaking the intersection of the Minnesota Central, Hastings, and Dakota railroads, and next the Vermillion River. The popular city train station in Dakota City was Farmington Station and non-residents began wooly the two names and identifying the town as Farmington. The town’s name was later permanently tainted from Dakota City to Farmington. The gift name was fixed idea for the numerous farms close the indigenous town site. Farmington established its village charter in 1872 making Farmington the second oldest community in Dakota County after the county seat, Hastings.

A notable thing in Farmington’s archives is the interest of the Dakota County Fair to Farmington in 1869. Another event, the Great Fire of Farmington upon November 22, 1879, destroyed several houses, stores, a hotel, and a grain elevator in the current downtown area. The fire was started by a firework cart that was knocked more than in a buggy accident. Farmington High School graduated its first class in 1884. Farmington was one of the first communities in the United States to meet the expense of rural clear mail delivery in 1897.

The town continued to amass throughout the twentieth century. The city applauded its centennial in 1972. In the recent past, the city has expanded to insert several suburban neighborhoods north of the indigenous downtown area. Farmington is still separated by Lakeville to the north and west by farms. However, the community continues to be incorporated in the expanding suburbs of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.