Comfrey Minnesota Map

About Comfrey, Minnesota

Comfrey is a locality in Brown County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 392. The population density is 353.6 people per km². Comfrey is located at 44.1102°N, 94.9047°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Comfrey is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56019.

Comfrey emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Minnesota prairie like a quiet gathering of grain elevators and brick storefronts defined by the immense, pale sky above. It lies 15.3 miles west-southwest of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 237°T), and is situated 9.6 miles south-southeast of Springfield. The landscape around Comfrey is a vast, rhythmic expanse of cultivated soil, occasionally punctuated by the thin, winding ribbon of the North Fork Watonwan River as it cuts through the earth two miles away. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain holds the subtle depressions of the Reed Lakebed, while the waters of Wood Lake offer a rare, reflective stillness six miles to the north. When the sun hangs low, the light stretches across the stubble of the harvested fields, turning the soil a deep, bruised purple and casting long, sharp shadows that seem to anchor the buildings to the dark, fertile ground.

Comfrey preserves the steady, deliberate character of the early settlers who broke the sod to establish a life built upon the seasonal cycles of corn and soybeans. The local economy remains tethered to the health of these wide, open acres, reflecting a history of agrarian persistence that survives in the orderly streets and the modest architecture of the downtown grid. Life here moves in accordance with the demands of the seasons, often finding a natural reprieve in the quiet expanses of the Terri State Wildlife Management Area, where the land is allowed to return to its original, unplowed state. Even as the decades have shifted the scale of modern agriculture, Comfrey maintains a grounded, functional dignity, a place where the wind carries the scent of dry stalks and the distant, cooling promise of the changing weather.

About This Comfrey Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Comfrey, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.110236, -94.904709. 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 Comfrey includes the ZIP code (56019), telephone area code (320), county seat of Brown County (New Ulm), and school district assignment (Comfrey 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.