Place:St. Cloud, Stearns, Minnesota, United States

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NameSt. Cloud
Alt namesGranite Citysource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) X, 313-314
Saint Cloudsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCity
Coordinates45.55°N 94.15°W
Located inStearns, Minnesota, United States     (1851 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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St. Cloud is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the largest population center in the state's central region; it is on the Mississippi River. The population was 65,842 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Stearns County. It is named after the city of Saint-Cloud, France (in Île-de-France, near Paris), which was named for the 6th-century French monk Clodoald.

Though mostly in Stearns County, the city also extends into Benton and Sherburne counties. It is the center of a small metropolitan area, with Waite Park, Sauk Rapids, Sartell, and St. Augusta directly bordering the city, and Foley, Rice, Kimball, Clearwater, Clear Lake, Rockville, St. Joseph, and Cold Spring nearby. With 189,093 residents at the 2010 census, the St. Cloud metropolitan area is the third-largest Minnesota population center, behind Minneapolis–St. Paul and Duluth–Superior, and slightly ahead of Rochester (with 187,612 residents). The population of Fargo-Moorhead is also larger than St. Cloud's or Rochester's, but most of that is in North Dakota, with only 58,999 residents in Minnesota.

St. Cloud is located northwest of the "Twin Cities" of Minneapolis–St. Paul along Interstate 94, U.S. Route 10, and Minnesota State Highway 23. The St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is made up of Stearns and Benton Counties. The city was included in a newly defined Minneapolis–St. Paul–St. Cloud Combined Statistical Area (CSA) in 2000. St. Cloud as a whole has never been part of the 13-county MSA comprising Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington and parts of western Wisconsin, although its Sherburne County portion is considered part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area by Census Bureau definition.

The Mississippi River flows through the city, which owns and operates a hydroelectric dam that can produce up to 9 megawatts of electricity. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources designated a section of the Mississippi south of St. Cloud as part of Minnesota's Wild & Scenic Rivers Program in 1976. It has the 30 undeveloped "Beaver Islands", multiple channels and sandbars, and no major rapids, and is popular for day trips by canoe.

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