Garfield Minnesota Map

About Garfield, Minnesota

Garfield is a locality in Douglas County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 349. The population density is 167.4 people per km². Garfield is located at 45.9408°N, 95.4920°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Garfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56332.

Garfield emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Minnesota prairie as a quiet collection of rooftops and grain silos rising against the immense, pale sky. It lies 6.7 miles northwest of Alexandria, MN (from Alexandria, MN: bearing 305°T), and is situated 31.8 miles northeast of Morris. The landscape around Garfield is defined by the slow, deliberate work of glacial retreat, leaving behind a terrain of modest swells and fertile fields that turn from deep emerald in the heat of July to the brittle, golden stalks of late autumn. Only a mile away, the quiet surface of Bjork Lake captures the shifting clouds, its edges fringed with tall, swaying grasses that bow under the pressure of the prevailing wind. Nine miles to the west, the silhouette of Tower Hill breaks the monotony of the plain, acting as a fixed point for the eye in a land where the horizon feels infinite and the air carries the sharp, clean scent of dry earth and coming frost.

Garfield holds its history in the sturdy, unadorned architecture of its storefronts and the sprawling agricultural plots that define the local economy. The legacy of the early settlers who broke this stubborn, rich soil remains in the careful maintenance of the surrounding farms, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life more than any mechanical clock. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the Garfield State Wildlife Management Area provides a sanctuary for the native flora and fauna, standing as a reminder of the wilder, unplowed state of the region. Even when the daily business of the grain elevators and local trade slows, the land remains active, with the runoff from the winter thaw eventually finding its way toward the distant channel of County Ditch Number Fourteen. Life in Garfield moves with a steady, enduring grace, marked by the long, deep winters that pull the residents inward and the brief, brilliant summers that demand every ounce of attention from the sun.

About This Garfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Garfield, Minnesota. Coordinates: 45.940794, -95.491987. 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 Garfield includes the ZIP code (56332), 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.