De Graff Minnesota Map

About De Graff, Minnesota

De Graff is a locality in Swift County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 110. The population density is 50.7 people per km². De Graff is located at 45.2633°N, 95.4678°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. De Graff is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56271.

De Graff occupies a quiet expanse of the prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a sky that seems to claim more than its share of the world. It lies 22.9 miles west-northwest of Willmar, MN (from Willmar, MN: bearing 295°T), and is situated 7.4 miles east-southeast of Benson. Mud Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the earth nearby, its dark, sluggish waters feeding the damp, fertile soil that characterizes this inland landscape. To the north, the terrain gives way to the protected grasses and wetlands of the Hollerberg Lake State Wildlife Management Area, a sanctuary where the silence is broken only by the sharp call of migrating birds. Four miles further, the still surface of Hollerberg Lake reflects the shifting, bruised colors of a Minnesota sunset, anchoring a geography defined by its flatness and the relentless, scouring wind that shapes the vegetation into hardy, resilient forms.

De Graff emerged from the expansion of the regional rail lines, becoming a quiet node in the vast network of grain transport that sustains the surrounding agricultural economy. The rhythm of life here is dictated by the seasons, shifting from the frantic, dust-choked urgency of harvest to the profound, static stillness of the long winters. Local industry remains rooted in the heavy, black loam of the fields, where the success of the year is measured in bushels and the slow maturation of row crops. While the distant Blue Mounds rise as a faint, jagged suggestion against the western sky, the character of the place remains firmly grounded in the immediate, unassuming labor of the plains, where the people hold a stoic appreciation for the land that has supported them for generations.

About This De Graff Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of De Graff, Minnesota. Coordinates: 45.263294, -95.467806. 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 De Graff includes the ZIP code (56271), telephone area code (320), county seat of Swift County (Benson), and school district assignment (Benson 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.