St. Anthony city (Stearns County), MN

St. Anthony city in Stearns County is a very small incorporated place within Krain Township, near Albany and Freeport in central Minnesota. It is easy to confuse with Saint Anthony Village in the Twin Cities, but this St. Anthony belongs to a rural Stearns County map: County Road 153, Minnesota 238, farm fields, and the surrounding township roads set the scene. The city’s footprint is compact, and its identity is more about its place in the township road network than about a dense downtown.

That distinction is the local scoop. The name sounds like the famous St. Anthony Falls and the Minneapolis neighborhood, yet this community sits west of the metro in the agricultural belt around St. Cloud. The surrounding roads connect it to Albany and Freeport, while the nearby small communities give the area its central-Minnesota rhythm. For a place this small, the useful mental picture is simple: a separate city tucked into Krain Township, with a rural setting and a name that belongs to more than one Minnesota map.