Conger Minnesota Map

About Conger, Minnesota

Conger is a locality in Freeborn County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 153. The population density is 454.4 people per km². Conger is located at 43.6150°N, 93.5283°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Conger is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 56009, 56020.

Conger occupies a quiet stretch of the southern prairie where the horizon remains wide and indifferent to the passage of a single afternoon. It lies 8.3 miles west-southwest of Albert Lea, MN (from Albert Lea, MN: bearing 254°T), and is situated 13.5 miles southeast of Wells. The landscape is defined by a rigorous flatness, where the sky exerts a heavy, blue pressure on the fields of corn and soybean that define the perimeter of every view. A few miles to the north, the waters of Church Lake catch the pale, thinning light of autumn, while the seasonal migration cycles through the Freeborn County Waterfowl Production Area with a persistent, rustling urgency. Foster Creek winds through the low-lying terrain like a slow, silver thread, its banks marking the edges of a land that has been measured, fenced, and turned by the plow for generations.

Conger persists as a small node of human industry sustained by the deep, dark soil that dictates the rhythm of the local economy. The legacy of Scandinavian settlement lingers in the sparse, sturdy architecture and the deliberate, unadorned manner of the inhabitants who maintain the silos and grain elevators. Life here moves in accordance with the demands of the harvest and the long, iron-gray winters that freeze the ground into a stillness deeper than sleep. While Hartland Forest remains a distant dark band of shadow on the far edge of the horizon, the reality of Conger is found in the open expanse of the fields, where the quality of the air at dusk carries a sharp, clean scent of dry stubble and the cooling earth.

About This Conger Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Conger, Minnesota. Coordinates: 43.614955, -93.528271. 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 Conger includes the ZIP code (56009, 56020), telephone area code (320), county seat of Freeborn County (Albert Lea), and school district assignment (Alden-Conger 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.