Sartell is a city in
Benton and
Stearns Counties in the U.S. state of
Minnesota
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that straddles the
Mississippi River
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. It is part of the
St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area
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. The population was 19,351 at the
2020 census,
making it
St. Cloud's most populous suburb and the fourth-largest city in
central Minnesota
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, after
St. Cloud,
Elk River, and
Willmar.
History
The first known Native American tribe in the area now known as Sartell were the
Dakota
Dakota may refer to:
* Dakota people, a sub-tribe of the Sioux
** Dakota language, their language
Dakota may also refer to:
Places United States
* Dakota, Georgia, an unincorporated community
* Dakota, Illinois, a town
* Dakota, Minnesota, a ...
.
Greysolon du Luht ("
Duluth
, settlement_type = City
, nicknames = Twin Ports (with Superior), Zenith City
, motto =
, image_skyline =
, image_caption = Clockwise from top: urban Duluth skyline; Minnesota ...
") visited the large
Mdewakantonwan village
Izatys on
Mille Lacs Lake
Mille Lacs Lake (also called Lake Mille Lacs or Mille Lacs) is a large but shallow lake in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is located in the counties of Mille Lacs, Aitkin, and Crow Wing, roughly 75 miles north of the Minneapolis-St. Paul m ...
in 1679. As the
Anishinaabe people
The Anishinaabeg (adjectival: Anishinaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawatomi, M ...
moved westward around
Lake Superior
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and into the interior away from the Europeans in the 18th century, they pushed the neighboring
Sioux/Dakota people to their west—in present-day
Minnesota
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—farther south and west away from them. By 1820 the
Chippewa/Anishinaabe controlled all of northern Minnesota, but raids between them and the Dakota to the south continued. The area later named Sartell was an intertribal
no man's land
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when French fur traders and British geographers first descended the
Mississippi River
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from the
Anishinaabe
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north (Jean-Baptiste Perrault 1789,
David Thompson 1798), and American explorers ascended the river from the
Sioux
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south (
Zebulon Pike
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1805,
Lewis Cass
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1820,
Henry Schoolcraft
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnology, ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native Americans in the United States, Native American cultures, as well as for his 1 ...
1832,
Joseph Nicollet
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (July 24, 1786 – September 11, 1843), also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s. Nicollet led three ...
1836).
The
Watab Creek in Sartell marked part of the border between the
Anishinaabe
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to the north and the
Dakota
Dakota may refer to:
* Dakota people, a sub-tribe of the Sioux
** Dakota language, their language
Dakota may also refer to:
Places United States
* Dakota, Georgia, an unincorporated community
* Dakota, Illinois, a town
* Dakota, Minnesota, a ...
to the south, who had lived farther north and east before the Anishinaabe's westward migrations. The U.S. legally established this border in its 1825 Treaty with the tribes at Prairie du Chien, which established a demarcation line between the Sioux and the Ojibwe at "the mouth of the first river which enters the Mississippi on its west side above the mouth of
Sac (Sauk) river; thence ascending the said river (above the mouth of Sac river)".
![Winnebago (now Sartell) on the 1866 Mississippi river ribbon map](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Winnebago_%28now_Sartell%29_on_the_1866_Mississippi_river_ribbon_map.png)
In 1846, 1,300
Ho-Chunk
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people were moved to the Sartell area, followed by the Chippewa/Anishinaabe sale of the area north of the
Watab River
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and west of the Mississippi to the U.S. In 1848, more members of the Ho-Chunk/Winnebago tribe (related
Dakotan speakers) were moved by order of the
U.S. government to the mouth of the
Watab Creek, now called the
Long Prairie reservation, to serve as a human buffer between the warring Dakota and Anishinaabe. Unhappy living between two warring tribes, the Ho-Chunk stayed less than five years, moving again in 1853 to more peaceful territory 50 miles south on the Mississippi. Three years later they sold their grist and saw mills and moved south of
Mankato
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. A 100-yard section of the old "Indian Trail" still remains just north of the creek's mouth albeit overgrown. The area was known as "Winnebago" at the time of the 1866 ribbon map of the Mississippi River.
Sartell got its start as a small American town on the Mississippi River with lumber and a paper company as its main industries. The city's present site was originally called "The Third Rapids", as it was the third set of rough waters that French fur traders encountered as they traveled north from
Saint Anthony Falls
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in
Minneapolis
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.
One of the first
white people
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Description of populations as ...
to settle in the fledgling town was Joseph B. Sartell, who arrived in 1854 and worked as a
millwright
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The term ''millwright'' (also known as ''industrial mecha ...
at a local
sawmill
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. In 1877, he opened a
flour mill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separat ...
at the nearby Watab River, and in 1884 he started Sartell Brothers Lumber Company with his sons.
In 1905, construction began on both the Sartell Pulp and Paper Company and the
Sartell Dam
The Sartell Dam is a dam across the Mississippi River in Sartell, Minnesota in the United States. The dam was used to generate hydroelectric power for the adjoining Sartell Paper Mill before it burned down in 2012. The dam is referred to as th ...
across the Mississippi, near the "third rapids". Both were completed in 1907, the dam project having claimed the lives of seven workers. Watab Pulp and Paper was rebuilt and expanded through the years, passing through multiple ownerships and eventually emerging as
Verso Paper's Sartell mill, the city's largest employer.
In 1907, residents of the town decided to
incorporate
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* Incorporation (business), the creation of a corporation
* Incorporation of a place, creation of municipal corporation such as a city or county
* Incorporation (academic), awarding a degree based on the student having ...
. Several influential people felt the town ought to be named Wengert, after a local businessman. But because of Joseph Sartell's many relatives and generous contributions to the community, the town was incorporated as "The Village of Sartell" in his honor. From 1907 until 1973 there was a Sartell on nearly every City Council, the most prominent being Ripley "Rip" B. Sartell, store owner and mayor for 31 years.
The village continued to grow slowly, developing a number of businesses and a downtown on the east side of the Mississippi along
U.S. Highway 10
U.S. Route 10 or U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) is an east–west United States highway located in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions of the United States. Unlike most U.S. routes with "0" as the last digit of its route number, US 10 ...
. In the 1960s, the highway was rerouted farther east, contributing to the downtown's demise. In 1973 the Minnesota Legislature required all municipal designations be changed to "city", so "the Village of Sartell" became "the City of Sartell".
The construction of the
Sartell Bridge
The Sartell Bridge is a bridge that spans the Mississippi River in the city of Sartell in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The bridge also spans a roadway, property belonging to the Sartell paper mill, and a rail line on the east side of the rive ...
over the Mississippi in the early 1980s replaced the remaining businesses. This and Sartell's location near
St. Cloud's major retail center account for its lack of a traditional "downtown".
Independent School District 748, Sartell-
St. Stephen
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, was created in 1969 because residents wanted to educate their children locally. Despite the lack of a downtown, the city continued to grow at an increasing pace in the 1970s. From 1960 to the present, the city's population has gone from 700 to over 18,000.
Economy
Sartell's largest employers have been the paper mill that started in 1907 as Watab Pulp & Paper, became St. Regis Paper Company in 1947, and then
Verso Paper Sartell Mill, and DeZurik Water Controls, whose valve production plant is in Sartell. The city also hosts a number of small businesses, including gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, and salons. In 2012 the Verso Paper mill was severely damaged by an explosion and, due also to decreasing paper demand, was shut down and sold for parts. More recently the city has begun to urbanize, adding larger chain businesses such as Walmart and Sam's Club in a newly developed area eventually to be a new downtown.
Law and government
Sartell's city council consists of a mayor and four members elected at large. Sartell's mayor is Ryan Fitzthum, and the council members are Jill Smith, Alex Lewandowski, Tim Elness, and Jeff Kolb. They possess the authority to pass and enforce
ordinance
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* ...
s, establish public and administrative policies, create advisory boards and commissions, and manage the city's financial operations, including preparing a budget, auditing expenditures, and transacting other city business as required by law. The city council also appoints a city administrator, who oversees the city's daily operation and implements the policies of the council.
City recreational facilities include 24 parks, miles of paved walking paths, playgrounds, a bike lane, tennis courts, baseball and soccer fields, ice rinks, a golf course and a wading pool.
Religion
The Sartell family was largely
Presbyterian
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, and helped organize the first church in the town, Riverside Presbyterian, on the west bank of the Mississippi River about one mile north of the town's (then) sole stop sign, to serve the Sunday interests of local
Protestants
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. Saint
Francis Xavier
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Church,
Roman Catholic
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, was founded in 1948, named after
Francis Xavier Pierz
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, a Slovenian missionary to
Native Americans in the area, and largely responsible for attracting the large population of Slovenian, Polish,
Bohemia
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n, Slovakian and especially German farmers to the area.
Transportation
Transportation to and from Sartell is limited to surface roads, mainly
U.S. Highway 10
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and
Minnesota State Highway 15
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, both of which pass along the outskirts of the city. St. Cloud Metro Bus service runs to destinations in Sartell and neighboring
Sauk Rapids.
The city's proximity to St. Cloud allows for convenient access to
St. Cloud Regional Airport, as well as the city's
Amtrak
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and
Greyhound
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stations.
The dams along the Mississippi River and the waterway's relative shallowness render it useless for anything more than recreational
watercraft
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traffic. Sartell's location on the river facilitated the construction of the
Old Sartell Bridge
The Old Sartell Bridge is a bridge that spans the Mississippi River in the city of Sartell in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Though still standing, it is closed to traffic and was replaced by the Sartell Bridge constructed about 850 feet downstream ...
in 1914, which was replaced by the current
Sartell Bridge
The Sartell Bridge is a bridge that spans the Mississippi River in the city of Sartell in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The bridge also spans a roadway, property belonging to the Sartell paper mill, and a rail line on the east side of the rive ...
in 1984.
Geography
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has an area of ; is land and is water.
U.S. Highway 10
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,
Minnesota State Highway 15
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, and County 1 are three of Sartell's main routes. Other nearby routes in the St. Cloud area include
Interstate 94
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/
U.S. Highway 52,
Minnesota State Highway 23
Minnesota State Highway 23 (MN 23) is a state highway that stretches from southwestern to northeastern Minnesota. At in length, it is the second longest state route in Minnesota, after MN 1.
This route, signed east–west, runs roughl ...
, and County 75. Sartell is immediately north of St. Cloud.
The city is on the Mississippi River, with the surrounding undeveloped property composed mainly of woodlands and farmland.
Demographics
2020 census
''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''
2010 census
As of the
census
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of 2010, there were 15,876 people, 5,859 households, and 4,060 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 6,123 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 95.5%
White
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, 0.9%
African American
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, 0.2%
Native American, 1.5%
Asian
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, 0.5% from
other races
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, and 1.4% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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or
Latino
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** Latin A ...
of any race were 1.4% of the population.
There were 5,859 households, of which 42.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.0% were married couples living together, 10.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 30.7% were non-families. 23.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.16.
The median age in the city was 32.7 years. 30.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 31.9% were from 25 to 44; 20.8% were from 45 to 64; and 10.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.8% male and 52.2% female.
2000 census
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 9,641 people, 3,443 households, and 2,513 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,633.9 persons per square mile (630.9/km). There were 3,531 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.42%
White
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, 0.29%
African American
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, 0.17%
Native American, 1.21%
Asian
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** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
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, 0.01%
Pacific Islander
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, 0.21% from
other races
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, and 0.69% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to Vic ...
or
Latino
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* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race were 0.87% of the population.
There were 3,443 households, out of which 46.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.6% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.0% were non-families. 20.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.23.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 32.0% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 35.5% from 25 to 44, 15.5% from 45 to 64, and 8.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.3 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $52,531, and the median income for a family was $61,056. Males had a median income of $39,834 versus $27,476 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,667. About 3.0% of families and 4.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.7% of those under age 18 and 8.3% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Most of Sartell in Stearns County is in the
Sartell-St. Stephen School District. Portions in that county are in the
St. Cloud Area School District St. Cloud Area School District 742 is a school district headquartered in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
It is also known as District 742 Community Schools.
History
In 2016 the district had about 10,000 students.
From 2001 to 2016, the number of students ...
. Most of Sartell's Benton County sections are in
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools, with the rest in the Sartell-St. Stephen district.
Sartell's St. Cloud school district sections are zoned to Westwood Elementary School, North Middle School, and
Apollo High School.
List of mayors
*Charles Sartell, 1907–1923
*C.L. Witherell, 1924–1928, 1932–1936
*Norris Sartell, 1929–1931
*Ripley Sartell Sr, 1937–1943, 1960–1973
*Elmer Thornton, 1944–1947
*Peter Pikus, 1948–1949
*Joseph Gallus, 1950–1955
*Darrel Hurd, 1956–1959
*Tony Zakrajshek, 1974–1978
*Robert C. Bogard, 1979–1990
*Robert Pogatshnik, 1991–2006
*Tim O'Driscoll 2007–2011
*Joe Perske, 2011–2014
*Sarah Nicoll, 2015–2018
*Ryan Fitzthum, 2019–term expires 2022
Notable people
*
Craig Sauer, linebacker for the
Minnesota Vikings
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*
Kurt Sauer, defenseman for the
Phoenix Coyotes
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*
Michael Sauer, drafted by the
New York Rangers
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in July 2005
*
Al Patton, Minnesota state representative, 1973–1980
References
External links
City WebsiteSartell Historical SocietySartell ''Newsleader'' newspaper siteSartell St. Stephen School District
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Cities in Minnesota
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