Coates Minnesota Map

About Coates, Minnesota

Coates is a locality in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 147. The population density is 37.9 people per km². Coates is located at 44.7172°N, 93.0347°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Coates is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55068.

Coates occupies a quiet expanse of the Minnesota prairie where the sky seems to stretch wider than the earth beneath it. It lies 4.7 miles east-southeast of Rosemount, MN (from Rosemount, MN: bearing 109°T), and is situated 8.8 miles southeast of Eagan. The landscape around Coates remains defined by the open, sprawling rhythm of agricultural fields that turn from deep, verdant greens in the summer to the muted, frozen gold of autumn stubble. Only a few miles away, the Vermillion River carves a subtle path through the terrain, its waters moving with a deliberate, low-slung patience that mirrors the stillness of the surrounding plains. To the north, the horizon remains flat and expansive, though on the clearest days of winter, the distant, hazy suggestion of Warrentown Ridge provides a faint, serrated edge to the far-reaching view.

History in Coates is measured in the steady persistence of the soil and the legacy of families who have worked these acres for generations. The economy remains tethered to the land, an extension of the broader regional tradition where the work of the day is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the demands of the harvest. Just a mile away, the Vermillion Highlands Research Recreation and State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of wilder, uncultivated space that contrasts sharply with the nearby orderly furrows of the farms. Whether the light is catching the frost on the fields or the long, amber shadows of a summer evening, life in Coates moves with a quiet, internal gravity, far removed from the bustle of the larger world.

About This Coates Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Coates, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.717189, -93.034658. 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 Coates includes the ZIP code (55068), telephone area code (612, 952), county seat of Dakota County (Hastings), and school district assignment (Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan).

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.