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The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 2.68 square miles (6.94 km 2), of which 2.67 square miles (6.92 km 2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) is water. [10] U.S. Route 52 and Minnesota State Highways 58 and 60 are the three main highways in the city.
Map of the United States with Minnesota highlighted. Minnesota is a state situated in the Midwestern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Minnesota is the 22nd most populous state with 5,706,494 inhabitants but the 14th largest by land area, spanning 79,626.74 square miles (206,232.3 km 2) of land. [1]
The annual Old Crossing Chautauqua and French-Canadian/Metis Festival is a three-day event held at Huot and is sponsored by AFRAN (Association of the French of the North). The event happens the fourth weekend of August. The AFRAN mission is to create an understanding of the world's French heritage through the arts and humanities.
This county was created on March 5 of that year. It was named for French explorer Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, who visited the area in 1700. [5] The settlement of Le Sueur (actually two competing settlements, Le Sueur and Le Sueur City) had sprung up on the east bank of the Minnesota River, both being platted in 1852.
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The population was 68,881 at the 2020 census, [4] making it Minnesota's 12th-largest city. St. Cloud is the county seat of Stearns County [6] and was named after the city of Saint-Cloud, France (in Île-de-France, near Paris), which was named after the 6th-century French monk Clodoald.
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