Emily Minnesota Map

About Emily, Minnesota

Emily is a locality in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 843. The population density is 10.9 people per km². Emily is located at 46.7690°N, 93.9805°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Emily is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56447.

Emily occupies a landscape where the dense, brooding timber of the Emily State Forest gives way to the stillness of Lake Emily, a body of water that holds the sky in a mirror of flat, unruffled gray. It lies 28.2 miles north-northeast of Brainerd, MN (from Brainerd, MN: bearing 24°T), and is situated 14.6 miles east-northeast of Breezy Point. The terrain here is defined by a glacial patience, marked by low, hummocky rises that soften the horizon long before one reaches the distant, jagged silhouette of the Cuyuna Range. Nearby, the Little Pine River cuts a quiet, persistent path through the undergrowth, its movement barely audible against the hushed backdrop of the North Woods. In the autumn, the light turns thin and sharp, catching the amber needles of tamaracks and casting long, spindly shadows that stretch across the frost-hardened earth.

Emily carries the quiet weight of a history built on the extraction of resources and the slow, steady persistence of those who worked the land and the nearby iron-rich soils. The economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the seasons, moving from the quiet industry of forestry to the seasonal influx of visitors drawn to the wilderness of the Miscellaneous SRMA. Life in Emily follows the cadence of the long, deep winters, where the community retreats into the warmth of woodstoves and the enduring legacies of Scandinavian and Ojibwe heritage. It is a place where the stillness is not an absence of life, but a deliberate presence, demanding a certain stoicism from those who choose to remain when the temperature drops and the world tightens into white, crystalline silence.

About This Emily Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Emily, Minnesota. Coordinates: 46.769011, -93.980502. 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 Emily includes the ZIP code (56447), telephone area code (320), county seat of Crow Wing County (Brainerd), and school district assignment (Crosby-Ironton 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.