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Welcome to Saint Anna ...

Saint Anna is located in Stearns County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Saint Anna, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

A typical abbreviation for Saint Anna: St. Anna

Saint Anna is 1,190 feet [363 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Saint Anna lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Saint Anna: 320

Communities Also Named Saint Anna ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Saint Anna - it's located in Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Saint Anna.

Communities near Saint Anna ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Saint Anna.

  • Saint Cloud
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Sartell
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Sauk Rapids
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Waite Park
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Saint Joseph
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Cold Spring
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Saint Augusta
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Saint Augusta is located in Stearns County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Augusta
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,900 people
  • Melrose
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Albany
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Rockville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Saint Anna. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Saint Anna.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Saint Anna. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Saint Anna.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Saint Anna. See our Newspapers Page for Saint Anna.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Saint Anna ...

Looking for more information about Saint Anna? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Saint Anna, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Saint Anna.

Adding Saint Anna to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Saint Anna in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Saint Anna was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Saint Anna post office opened in 1884. The Saint Anna post office closed in 1905.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Saint Anna.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Minnesota's counties, including Stearns, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Saint Anna - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/