Fountain Minnesota Map

About Fountain, Minnesota

Fountain is a locality in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 409. The population density is 158.9 people per km². Fountain is located at 43.7400°N, 92.1363°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Fountain is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55935.

Fountain occupies a quiet pocket of the Driftless Area, where the land rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells of limestone and topsoil. It lies 25.6 miles southeast of Rochester, MN (from Rochester, MN: bearing 139°T), and is situated 7.8 miles south-southeast of Chatfield. Rice Creek traces a meandering path through the earth nearby, its banks fringed with wild grasses that lean toward the current as if listening to the water’s low, persistent hum. The horizon is defined by the deep, verdant shadows of the Minnesota Memorial Hardwood State Forest, which stands only eight miles away, casting a cooling influence over the surrounding fields. When the sun begins to retreat behind the distant, hazy silhouette of Pigtail Ridge, the light takes on a bruised, amber quality that makes the very air feel heavy with the scent of damp loam and cooling stone.

Fountain owes its enduring character to the limestone karst topography that lies beneath the surface, a geology that once invited the development of a local economy deeply tied to the land’s hidden depths. While the nearby Johnson Creek II State Aquatic Management Area (Fillmore/St. Louis) preserves the integrity of the local watershed, the daily life of Fountain persists in the steady, industrious work of those who cultivate the surrounding plateau. History here is marked by the slow accumulation of seasons, a legacy of agriculture that values the resilience of the soil above all else. In the quiet transition between the harvest and the deep freeze, one might catch the faint, sharp rattle of machinery or the sudden, absolute silence that falls when the wind dies down, leaving the landscape to wait out the winter in a state of watchful patience.

About This Fountain Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fountain, Minnesota. Coordinates: 43.739964, -92.136272. 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 Fountain includes the ZIP code (55935), telephone area code (218), county seat of Fillmore County (Preston), and school district assignment (Fillmore Central).

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.