St. Francis is a city in Anoka and Isanti counties, Minnesota, United States.

[3] Minnesota State Highway 47 serves as a main route in the city.

[4] In 1855 Dwight Woodbury built a dam, grist and saw mill, and the first house, which later became the Riverside Hotel.

In the same year, school was started at the home of M. Fowler, and Hattie Waterhouse became the first teacher.

In the early 1890s, Blanchette's Sample Room Beer Parlour opened, and was turned into an ice cream parlor when the school was consolidated.

By this time, there was also a blacksmith shop, drugstore, and a meat market that was later turned into a livery stable.

[5] St. Francis was incorporated on May 16, 1962, and became a statutory city in 1974 when villages were removed as a subdivision in Minnesota.

17.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.