Forada Minnesota Map

About Forada, Minnesota

Forada is a locality in Douglas County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 170. The population density is 122.2 people per km². Forada is located at 45.7922°N, 95.3556°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Forada is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56308.

Forada exists as a quiet accumulation of wide horizons and flat, fertile earth, where the sky claims more territory than the land itself. It lies 6.5 miles south of Alexandria, MN (from Alexandria, MN: bearing 171°T), and is situated 9.9 miles north of Glenwood. The light here at dusk possesses a peculiar, thin clarity, stretching long shadows across the fields that seem to hold the heat of the day in the soil long after the sun has dipped below the western edge of the plains. Maple Lake sits at the center of the local geography, its surface reflecting the changing moods of the Minnesota weather, while the nearby Douglas County Waterfowl Production Area provides a sanctuary for the migratory birds that mark the turning of the seasons. Three miles away, County Ditch Number Twentyeight cuts a precise, utilitarian path through the landscape, serving as a reminder of the engineering required to tame this ground for the harvest. To the distance, the silhouette of Tower Hill rises thirteen miles away, a faint, singular interruption in the otherwise expansive line of the horizon.

Forada maintains a steady, deliberate pace of life, deeply tethered to the agricultural rhythms of its founding settlers who broke this prairie sod generations ago. The local economy remains inextricably linked to the land, with the cycles of planting and harvest dictating the pulse of the days far more effectively than any clock. The cultural character of the region retains a subtle, inherited stoicism, a remnant of the Scandinavian and agrarian influences that shaped the early character of the plains. Life in Forada unfolds in the quiet spaces between the grain elevators and the steady maintenance of the surrounding farms, where the resilience of the residents is tested by the long, deep winters that turn the world into a vast, silent expanse of white. It is a place where the stillness is not an absence of activity, but a physical presence, felt in the way the wind moves across the stubble of the fields and the way the locals recognize the quiet endurance required to thrive in such a sprawling, open country.

About This Forada Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Forada, Minnesota. Coordinates: 45.792184, -95.355592. 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 Forada includes the ZIP code (56308), telephone area code (320), county seat of Douglas County (Alexandria), and school district assignment (Alexandria 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.