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Sauk Centre
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city in Stearns County, Minnesota, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Stearns
- Mayor
- Warren Stone
- Total
- 4.08 sq mi (10.58 km )
- Land
- 4.08 sq mi (10.57 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
- Elevation
- 1,250 ft (380 m)
- Estimate 2021
- 4,599
- Density
- 1,116.1/sq mi (430.91/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 27-58648
- Website
- saukcentremn .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Sauk Centre
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Stearns County
- Population
- 4555
- Area
- 11.000651
- Elevation
- 381
- Official website
- www.ci.sauk-centre.mn.us
- Image
- Main Street Sauk Centre MN.jpg
- Households
- 1878
- Dialing code
- 320
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- Commons category
- Sauk Centre, Minnesota
- postal code
- 56378
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sauk Centre, Minnesota
- native label
- Sauk Centre
- water as percent of area
- 6.127
- per capita income
- 29357
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Encyclopedic overview
Sauk Centre (/sɔːk/ SAWK) is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 4,555 at the 2020 census. Sauk Centre is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sauk Centre is the birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, a novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It inspired his fictional Gopher Prairie, the setting of Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street. There are two sculptures of Lewis in Sauk Centre, one life size sculpture just outside the public library named after him, and a bust, sculpted by Joseph Kiselewski, inside the library.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sauk Centre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.