Cobden Minnesota Map

About Cobden, Minnesota

Cobden is a locality in Brown County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 36. The population density is 14.0 people per km². Cobden is located at 44.2863°N, 94.8489°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cobden is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56085.

Cobden sits amidst the vast, silent expanse of the prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that seems to press down with the weight of impending winter. It lies 10.8 miles west-northwest of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 291°T), and is situated 6.2 miles west of Sleepy Eye. Sleepy Eye Creek cuts a narrow, sluggish ribbon through the earth just a mile away, its banks marked by the skeletal reach of cottonwood trees that shiver in the relentless wind. Two miles to the east, the Bloemke Lakebed offers a hollow, seasonal basin where the light catches on damp, dark soil, while the nearby Boise Lake holds a mirror to the clouds three miles distant. The landscape is defined by this openness, a geography of long shadows and shifting gold, where the air carries the dry scent of dust and the faint, metallic tang of cold iron.

Cobden bears the quiet marks of an agricultural heritage, having grown from the necessity of rail lines and the turning of deep, black soil. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, with grain elevators standing as the singular, hulking sentinels of the skyline, watching over fields that have been worked by generations. Residents often find their way to the Boise Lake State Wildlife Management Area, where the land yields to the quiet migration of waterfowl and the slow, deliberate pulse of the changing seasons. Life in Cobden proceeds with a steady, unadorned persistence, favoring the pragmatism of those who understand that the prosperity of the region is written in the success of the crop and the endurance of the winter frost.

About This Cobden Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cobden, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.286349, -94.848876. 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 Cobden includes the ZIP code (56085), telephone area code (320), county seat of Brown County (New Ulm), and school district assignment (Springfield 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.