Heron Lake Minnesota Map

About Heron Lake, Minnesota

Heron Lake is a locality in Jackson County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 602. The population density is 187.1 people per km². Heron Lake is located at 43.7950°N, 95.3203°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Heron Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56137.

Heron Lake sits squarely upon the vast, open expanse of the southwestern Minnesota prairie, where the horizon pulls the sky taut against a flat, fertile floor of black earth. It lies 18.3 miles northeast of Worthington, MN (from Worthington, MN: bearing 49°T), and is situated 11.3 miles west-southwest of Windom. The landscape around Heron Lake is defined by its quiet horizontal majesty, a patchwork of agricultural fields that shift from the deep, bruised greens of midsummer to the pale, brittle gold of harvest. Only a mile away, the quiet waters of Duck Lake catch the erratic, brilliant light of the afternoon sun, while the Heron Lake Outlet traces a thin, winding vein through the grasses. To the north, the Heron Meadows State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of tall reeds and sedge, where the air grows heavy with the scent of damp soil and the dry, rustling sound of wind moving through native flora.

History in Heron Lake is recorded in the sturdy, unadorned architecture of grain elevators and the straight lines of section roads that divide the land into a precise, geometric grid. The local economy remains anchored to the rhythms of the seasons, driven by the intense labor of cultivation and the steady, mechanical pulse of regional commerce. Life in Heron Lake moves with a deliberate, measured pace, influenced by the long, deep winters that force a kind of introspective stillness upon the inhabitants. Even in the height of productivity, there is a pervasive sense of space, a feeling that the land is far more expansive than the structures built upon it, leaving the inhabitants to navigate a world where the weather and the soil dictate the boundaries of the day.

About This Heron Lake Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Heron Lake, Minnesota. Coordinates: 43.794959, -95.320276. 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 Heron Lake includes the ZIP code (56137), telephone area code (320), county seat of Jackson County (Jackson), and school district assignment (Heron Lake-Okabena 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.