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Avon Township is a township in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,294 at the 2010 census. [3] The township includes the city of Avon. Avon Township was organized in 1866. [4] The township contains one property listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1902 Church of the Immaculate Conception. [5]
Avon is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,396 at the 2010 census . [ 6 ] It is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area .
St. Anna is an unincorporated community in Avon Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, United States, near Avon and Albany. The community is located near the junction of Stearns County Roads 9 and 154. The community contains one property listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1902 Church of the Immaculate Conception. [2]
Paynesville is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States, on Lake Koronis, in the central part of the state. The population was 2,388 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Kimball (/ ˈ k ɪ m b ə l / KIM-bəl) [4] is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 799 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ] It is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area .
A post office called Freeport has been in operation since 1881. [5] The city was named after Freeport, Illinois. [6] Freeport was incorporated in 1892. [6] The city contains two properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1905 Church of the Sacred Heart and remnants of the 1898 Swany White Flour Mills.
The city sits on the boundary between Stearns County to the north and Meeker County to the south. The intersection of state highways 22 and Minnesota State Highway 55, is in the southern part of town. Highway 22 leads north 10 miles (16 km) to Richmond and south 14 miles (23 km) to Litchfield, the Meeker county seat.
Originally home to the native Dakota people until the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851, St. Joseph was laid out in 1855.. Writing in 1997, Jewish-American historian of America's religious architecture Marilyn J. Chiat described early settlement in the region, "Father Francis X. Pierz, a missionary to [Native Americans] in central Minnesota, published a series of articles in ...