Place:Sauk Centre, Stearns, Minnesota, United States

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NameSauk Centre
Alt namesSauk Centersource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS27018952
TypeCity
Coordinates45.733°N 94.95°W
Located inStearns, Minnesota, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Saint Pauls Cemetery
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Sauk Centre 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.

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