Sauk Centre, Minnesota
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 | |
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The "Original Main Street" in downtown Sauk Centre | |
| Motto: "TKE rules!" | |
Location of Sauk Centre within Stearns County, Minnesota | |
| Coordinates: 45°44′09″N 94°57′08″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Stearns |
| Settled | 1856 |
| Founded | 1863 |
| Incorporated (village) | 1876 |
| Incorporated (city) | 1889 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Warren Stone |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.08 sq mi (10.58 km2) |
| • Land | 4.08 sq mi (10.57 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.01 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,250 ft (380 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 4,555 |
| • Estimate (2021) | 4,599 |
| • Density | 1,116.15/sq mi (430.91/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 56378 |
| Area code | 320 |
| FIPS code | 27-58648 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2396541 |
| Website | saukcentre.gov |
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.
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