Sauk Centre | |
|---|---|
 The "Original Main Street" in downtown Sauk Centre | |
 Location of Sauk Centre within Stearns County, Minnesota | |
| Coordinates: 45°44′09″N 94°57′08″W / 45.73583°N 94.95222°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Stearns |
| Settled | 1856 |
| Founded | 1863 |
| Incorporated (village) | 1876 |
| Incorporated (city) | 1889 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Warren Stone[1] |
| 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 | |
• Total | 4,555 |
• Estimate (2021)[5] | 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[6] |
| GNIS feature ID | 2396541[3] |
| Website | saukcentre.gov |
Sauk Centre (/sɔːk/ SAWK)[7] is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 4,555 at the 2020 census.[4] 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,[8] inside the library.
- ^ "Sauk Centre City Council Minutes" (PDF). Sauk Centre City Council. June 21, 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 1, 2023. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sauk Centre, Minnesota
- ^ a b "Explore Census Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
USCensusEst2021was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ "Minnesota Pronunciation Guide". Associated Press. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
- ^ "Sculpture". Joseph Kiselewski. Retrieved April 4, 2023.