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Location of the town/city of St.

Red River cart at Saint Cloud, 1887 Cloud / se nt kla d/ is a town/city in the state of Minnesota and the biggest population center in the state's central region.

Its populace is 67,109 as stated to the 2015 US census estimates, making it Minnesota's tenth biggest city. St.

Cloud is the governmental center of county of Stearns County and was titled after the town/city of Saint-Cloud, France (in Ile-de-France, near Paris), which was titled after the 6th-century French monk Clodoald.

Although mostly in Stearns County, St.

Cloud also extends into Benton and Sherburne counties, and straddles the Mississippi River.

It is the center of a small, adjoining urban region totaling over 116,000 residents, with Waite Park, Sauk Rapids, Sartell, St.

With 189,093 inhabitants at the 2010 census, the St.

Cloud urbane region is the fourth-largest in Minnesota, behind Minneapolis St.

(The populace of Fargo-Moorhead is also larger than St.

Cloud is 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis St.

Cloud Metropolitan Travel Destination (MSA) is made up of Stearns and Benton Counties. The town/city was encompassed in a newly defined Minneapolis St.

Cloud Combined Travel Destination (CSA) in 2000.

Cloud as a whole has never been part of the 13-county MSA comprising Minneapolis, St.

Cloud State University, Minnesota's third-largest enhance university, is positioned between the downtown region and the Beaver Islands, which form a maze for a two-mile stretch of the Mississippi.

What is now the St.

Cloud region was occupied by various indigenous citizens s for thousands of years.

The St.

Cloud region was opened up to pioneer in 1851 after treaty negotiations with the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) tribe in 1851 and 1852.

John Wilson, a Maine native with French Huguenot lineage and an interest in Napoleon, titled the settlement St.

Cloud was a waystation on the Middle and Woods chapters of the Red River Trails used by Metis traders between the Canada US border at Pembina, North Dakota and St.

The Metis, bringing furs to trade for supplies to take back to their non-urban settlements, would camp west of the town/city and cross the Mississippi in St.

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Upper Town, or Arcadia, was plotted by General Sylvanus Lowry, a slaveholder and trader from Kentucky who brought slaves with him, although Minnesota was organized as a no-charge territory. He served on the territorial Council from 1852 to 1853 and was propel St.

Cloud region when the Civil War broke out, taking their slaves with them. Lowry died in the town/city in 1865. Beginning in 1864, Stephen Miller served a two-year term as Minnesota governor, the only citizen of St.

Granite quarries have directed in the region since the 1880s, giving St.

Cloud is the Worst Place in Minnesota to Be Somali" in the Minneapolis tabloid City Pages.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 41.08 square miles (106.40 km2); 40.04 square miles (103.70 km2) is territory and 1.04 square miles (2.69 km2) is water. The town/city is bisected by the Mississippi River, and part of the Sauk River runs along its northern edge.

Cloud, MN (St.

Cloud is the principal town/city of the St.

Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area, a urbane region that covers Sherburne, Benton and Stearns counties and had a combined populace of 167,392 at the 2000 census.

In the 2000 census, 27.3% of St.

Cloud homeholds had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.4% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 45.9% were non-families.

Cloud's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 Centra - Care Health System / St.

2 State of Minnesota / St.

Cloud State University 2,036 3 St.

Cloud School District 828 10 City of St.

Cloud State University, with 16,457 students from about 80 nations.

A new chief library building opened in St.

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Cloud Hospital, part of Centra - Care Health, was established in 1886 as St.

Cloud River's Edge Convention Center, a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) meeting center overlooking the Mississippi River.

Cloud Technical & Community College, a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System.

Minnesota Correctional Facility St.

Cloud State University Division I ice hockey teams.

The Saint Cloud Area Roller Dolls, a flat-track roller derby league established in 2011. Cloud is in Minnesota's 6th congressional district, represented by Tom Emmer (R).

Cloud is partly in Minnesota House of Representatives precinct 14 - A, represented by Tama Theis (R), and partly in 14 - B, represented by Jim Knoblach (R).

The town/city of St.

Cloud is part of the St.

Cloud Area School District, which serves St.

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Augusta, Clearwater, Waite Park, St.

The precinct has eight elementary schools, a new K-8 school in St.

Joseph, and two primary enhance high schools, St.

Cloud Technical High School and St.

Cloud Apollo High School. St.

Cloud also has a primary private high school, Cathedral High School.

Both enhance high schools offer a broad selection of Advanced Placement courses, and project high in the state in number of AP tests taken and of test takers. St.

Cloud Tech is the older of the two, opening in 1917, and is just west of downtown on the city's south side.

Other high schools and secondary schools that serve the town/city of St.

Cloud include St.

Robert Bellarmine's Academy, St.

Cloud Christian School, Immaculate Conception Academy, St.

John's Preparatory School, St.

Cloud Alternative Learning Center, and charter school STRIDE Academy, which is K-8.

The close-by cities of Sauk Rapids and Sartell also have their own school districts and high schools, bringing the number of enhance high schools in the urbane region to four. St.

Cloud is home to a several higher education establishments, including Minnesota's third-largest university, St.

Cloud State University.

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Cloud State's fall 2013 enrollment was 16,245, including 1,604 graduate students, 1,025 global students and 700 veteran students. Other post-secondary establishments and campuses in St.

Cloud include St.

Cloud Technical and Community College (SCTCC), Rasmussen College and Globe University/Minnesota School of Business.

Neighboring Sartell is home to a ground of the Duluth-based College of St.

Scholastica, and the College of St.

Benedict and St.

John's University are in neighboring St.

The chief journal is the St.

The St.

Cloud Diocese also prints the St.

Additionally, St.

Cloud State University students operate cable-only UTVS (channel 180), which includes small-town news. 88.1 FM KVSC College Radio St.

Cloud State University 97.5 FM KVEX-LP Radio - X Alternative Rock St.

Cloud State University 105.1 FM KZYS-LP Somalian Saint Cloud Area Somali Salvation Organization St.

Cloud is a county-wide transit hub inside Minnesota.

Bus service inside the town/city and to neighboring Sartell, Sauk Rapids, and Waite Park is offered through St.

Bus service links downtown St.

Cloud and St.

Cloud State University with the end of the Northstar Commuter Rail line in Big Lake, by the way of Northstar Link Commuter Bus, which in turn links to the Metro Transit bus and light rail fitness at Target Field Station in downtown Minneapolis.

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Cloud is also home to St.

Cloud Regional Airport, from which daily connecting flights to Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport were made on Delta Connection, directed by Mesaba Airlines, until January 1, 2010, when the service was discontinued.

On December 15, 2012, Allegiant Air began nonstop flights between St.

Grew up in St.

Cloud and attended Cathedral High School. Collins, Minnesota jurist and legislator; mayor of St.

Stephen Sommers, film director and alumnus of Cathedral High School and St.

Courtroom scenes in the Disney Film The Mighty Ducks were filmed in St.

Senator Al Franken and Tom Davis's One More Saturday Night is set in St.

Juno was partially set in St.

Cloud, which is referred to as "East Jesus Nowhere", though no recording took place in the city.

The song "On a Bus to St.

Judith Guest and Rebecca Hill's novel Killing Time in St.

Cloud is set in the eponymous city.

Emerson is from St.

In the novel The Death and Life of Charlie St.

Cloud by Ben Sherwood, the chief character's mother interval up in the city.

In the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Marshall Eriksen is from St.

Throughout the series, St.

The post-hardcore band For All Those Sleeping formed in St.

The 1989 film Catch Me If You Can was shot in St.

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