Chisholm Minnesota Map

About Chisholm, Minnesota

Chisholm is a locality in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,775. The population density is 412.5 people per km². Chisholm is located at 47.4891°N, 92.8838°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Chisholm is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55719.

Chisholm emerges from the northern landscape as a place where the earth itself reflects the deep, metallic bones of the Mesabi Range, which looms nine miles to the south like a silent, iron-dusted sentinel. It lies 5.0 miles north-northeast of Hibbing, MN (from Hibbing, MN: bearing 30°T), and is situated 16.4 miles west of Virginia. The air here holds a crisp, biting clarity, carrying the scent of pine from the distant Floodwood Memorial Forest and the damp, cool exhales of Longyear Lake, which sits right at the edge of the streets. Beyond the town limits, the terrain opens into expansive, rugged stretches where Barber Creek carves its narrow, winding path through the brush, fed by the slow melt of long, heavy winters. In Chisholm Memorial Park, the light at dusk turns a bruised, singular violet, casting long shadows across the ground and softening the hard edges of the industrial history that once defined the horizon.

Economic life in Chisholm remains tied to the deep, rust-colored veins of the earth, a legacy of the mining industry that gathered families from across the globe to labor in the red soil. The cultural character of the place is built upon these layers of immigrant toil, where the stoic resilience of the North Woods informs the slow, deliberate pace of daily life. While the massive open pits of the past have quieted, the town maintains a distinct identity, one that recognizes the weight of its own history in every weathered storefront and quiet residential block. It is a place that asks for little, offering instead a stark, honest beauty that thrives in the absence of pretense, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the turn of the year and the color of the sky.

About This Chisholm Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Chisholm, Minnesota. Coordinates: 47.489097, -92.883796. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Chisholm includes the ZIP code (55719), telephone area code (218), county seat of St. Louis County (Duluth), and school district assignment (Chisholm Public School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.