Sauk Centre, Minnesota

Sauk Centre is a city located in Stearns County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,930. It is the birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, a novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Sauk Centre served as the inspiration for Gopher Prairie, the ficitonal setting of Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.3 km² (4.0 mi²). 9.6 km² (3.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 6.30% water.

Related Topics:
United States Census Bureau - Km² - Mi²

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