Sauk Centre (other)
Sauk Centre is the name of the two following places, both of which are found in the United States: *Sauk Centre, Minnesota *Sauk Centre Township, Stearns County, Minnesota Sauk Centre Township is a township in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,088 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of ; is land and , or 5.16%, is wa ...

Sauk Centre, Minnesota
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''. History The town was originally named by a lottery. The eight original town shareholders submitted suggestions for a name, and Sauk Centre was selected. The name was submitted by Alexander Moore, who originally bought and platted the town. Sauk refers to the many place names associated with the Sauk tribe (Sauk River, Sauk Rapids, Little Sauk, Osakis, etc). Centre (the British spelling of "center") refers to the town's central location between Sauk Rapids and Lake Osakis. When the Sauk Centre post office was established it used the spelling "Sauk Center", until 1936 when the city won its fight to spell th ...
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