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St. Hilaire is a city in section 6 of River Falls Township in Pennington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 273 at the 2020 census.

St. Hilaire city overview:
Name:St. Hilaire city
LSAD Code:25
LSAD Description:city (suffix)
State:Minnesota
County:Pennington County
Founded:Incorporated
Elevation:1,089 ft (332 m)
Total Area:0.84 sq mi (2.18 km²)
Land Area:0.78 sq mi (2.03 km²)
Water Area:0.06 sq mi (0.16 km²)
Total Population:273
Population Density:349.10/sq mi (134.77/km²)
ZIP code:56754
Area code:218
FIPS code:2757022
GNISfeature ID:0650607

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History

St. Hilaire was platted in 1882 and incorporated as a village on the auspicious date of July 4, 1883. Also on that date, St. Hilaire had rail service for the first time, as the Great Northern Railway opened a branch line from Crookston, Minnesota through Shirley, seven miles north of Crookston, Dorothy and Ives Station, to St. Hilaire.

St. Hilaire received its name in one of three ways:

  • A Frenchman named St. Hilaire lived in a shack by the Red Lake River, selling items like gunpowder and tobacco, and when an item was needed, residents would “go to St. Hilaire” for it, and the name stuck.
  • A Frenchman named Arthur Yvernault bought land on which the townsite was then platted and named for his hometown in France.
  • It was named by Hon. Frank Ives for the French Statesman and author Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, who was born in Paris, August 19, 1805, and died November 24, 1895. Frank Ives was a judge in Crookston, MN, which was the county seat of Polk County (of which Pennington was then a part) and his son, Harry Ives, was the postmaster when the St. Hilaire post office began in 1882 while still part of Polk County. Frank Ives owned land in St. Hilaire, but never lived there. This third possibility was favored by historian Warren Upham, and by extension by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Harry Ives was also the publisher of the St. Hilaire Spectator, the first newspaper to serve this community. The Spectator was published from 1883 to 1942, when it closed and sold its subscription list to the Thief River Falls Times.

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Road map of St. Hilaire

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Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.83 square miles (2.15 km), of which 0.77 square miles (1.99 km) is land and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km) is water.

See also

Map of Minnesota State and its subdivision: Map of other states:
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Map of Pennington County, Minnesota
Pennington County is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,992. Its county seat is Thief River Falls. Pennington County overview: Name: Pennington County FIPS code: 27-113 State: Minnesota Founded: November 23, 1910 Named for: Edmund Pennington Seat: Thief River Falls Largest ... Read more
Map of Pennington County, Minnesota

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