Freeport is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States.

[6] The city contains two properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1905 Church of the Sacred Heart and remnants of the 1898 Swany White Flour Mills.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.15 square miles (2.98 km2), all land.

[8] The city of Freeport is located within Oak Township geographically but is a separate entity.

The racial makeup of the city was 97.0% White, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% Asian, and 2.5% from other races.

26.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Garrison Keillor, creator of Lake Wobegon and host of the radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion, has written that Stearns County in general and Freeport specifically, in addition to other small Minnesota towns, were inspirations for his fictional town, Lake Wobegon.

In 1998, the county honored Keillor and his show by naming a section of abandoned rail line the Lake Wobegon Trail.