Altura Minnesota Map

About Altura, Minnesota

Altura is a locality in Winona County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 388. The population density is 53.6 people per km². Altura is located at 44.0716°N, 91.9396°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 55969.

Altura sits where the land begins to hum, a quiet ripple in the broad, rolling landscape of Winona County. It lies 15.0 miles west of Winona, MN (from Winona, MN: bearing 276°T), and is situated 9.4 miles north-east of St. Charles. The fields here are a patchwork of greens and golds, stitched together by the dark threads of tree lines that march across the horizon. When the sun dips low, it washes the gentle slopes in a honeyed light, deepening the shadows that pool in the hollows and giving the very air a palpable, golden weight. Creek beds, dry for much of the year, trace silver veins through the earth, a reminder of the water that once shaped this place. The story of Altura is written in the soil and the careful hands that have worked it for generations. It's a place shaped by the steady pulse of agriculture, where the scent of freshly tilled earth mingles with the distant hum of tractors. This is a landscape that remembers the early settlers, their hopes and their labor etched into the very contours of the land. The local economy, rooted in the bounty of the fields, is a testament to a life lived in close communion with the seasons. There's a quiet pride here, a sense of continuity that can be felt in the unhurried pace of everyday life, a rhythm dictated not by clocks, but by the slow, sure turning of the earth.

About This Altura Map Page

This page provides an interactive Google map of Altura, Minnesota with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Altura and Winona County.

Detailed location data for Altura includes the ZIP code (55910), telephone area code (218), county seat of Winona County (Winona), and school district assignment (Lewiston-Altura Public School District). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Altura is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.