Empire Minnesota Map

About Empire, Minnesota

Empire is a locality in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,092. The population density is 69.3 people per km². Empire is located at 44.6591°N, 93.0147°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 55024.

Empire manifests as a vast, open expanse where the horizon pulls the eye across flat, fertile plains that seem to breathe under the weight of an immense, pale sky. It lies 6.5 miles east-northeast of Farmington, MN (from Farmington, MN: bearing 78°T), and is situated 7.8 miles southeast of Rosemount. The Vermillion River carves a quiet, serpentine path through this terrain, its banks lined with the tangled, muted greens of the Vermillion River State Aquatic Management Area (Dakota) which anchors the local landscape in a state of protected stillness. During the long, deep winters, the earth hardens into a porcelain stillness, while the brief, golden heat of summer coaxes a lush, emerald vitality from the fields. Far to the south, the distant, hazy silhouette of Warrentown Ridge occasionally breaks the otherwise uninterrupted line of the earth, providing a faint, jagged anchor for the imagination.

Empire holds the quiet gravity of a place built upon the steady, rhythmic labor of agriculture, where the legacy of early settlers persists in the sturdy, utilitarian lines of old farmsteads and the persistence of the local economy. While Spring Lake waits seven miles away as a quiet destination for those seeking the stillness of water, the life of Empire remains tethered to the soil and the seasonal cycles of harvest and dormancy. The air here carries the scent of turned earth and drying grasses, a fragrance that lingers long after the sun dips below the level plains, casting long, thin shadows that stretch across the fields. There is a profound, unadorned honesty in the way the local residents go about their days, moving with a deliberate pace that acknowledges the enduring, quiet power of the land they inhabit.

About This Empire Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Empire, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.659134, -93.014656. 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 Empire includes the ZIP code (55024), telephone area code (612, 952), county seat of Dakota County (Hastings), and school district assignment (Farmington 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.