Clarkfield Minnesota Map

About Clarkfield, Minnesota

Clarkfield is a locality in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 852. The population density is 305.7 people per km². Clarkfield is located at 44.7905°N, 95.8086°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Clarkfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56223.

Clarkfield emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Upper Midwest like a steady pulse against the vastness of the prairie. It lies 23.8 miles north of Marshall, MN (from Marshall, MN: bearing 358°T), and is situated 11.3 miles south-southwest of Montevideo. The landscape surrounding Clarkfield remains defined by the deep, fertile earth of the plains, where the sky claims more territory than the land itself and shifts through a spectrum of bruised purples and pale golds as dusk settles over the fields. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Antelope Hills suggests a rugged edge to the world, while the proximity of the Stoney Run State Wildlife Management Area offers a quiet sanctuary of prairie grasses and native brush. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the water of Spring Creek moves with a slow, deliberate gravity, carving its path through the soil and anchoring the local ecosystem in a rhythm that ignores the frantic pace of distant centers.

Agricultural cycles dictate the heartbeat of Clarkfield, as the seasons dictate the labor of the hands that work the surrounding soil. The economic life of the region remains tethered to the bounty of the harvest, a tradition that honors the endurance of those who first broke this sod and built their lives upon the resilience of the plains. While the winters can be long and unforgiving, the people find a steady comfort in the persistence of their routines and the reliable clarity of the air. Those who seek a moment of stillness often travel toward the quiet surface of Spellman Lake, where the water mirrors the clouds with a glass-like precision. Life in Clarkfield moves with a grounded, unpretentious gravity, marked by the simple, enduring connections of a place that understands the value of being exactly where it is.

About This Clarkfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Clarkfield, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.790514, -95.808639. 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 Clarkfield includes the ZIP code (56223), telephone area code (320), county seat of Yellow Medicine County (Granite Falls), and school district assignment (Yellow Medicine East).

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.