Hills Minnesota Map

About Hills, Minnesota

Hills is a locality in Rock County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 686. The population density is 420.4 people per km². Hills is located at 43.5280°N, 96.3586°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hills is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56138.

Hills occupies a vast, level expanse of the prairie where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pulling the sky down to meet the golden grasses of the plains. It lies 38.7 miles west of Worthington, MN (from Worthington, MN: bearing 261°T), and is situated 17.2 miles east of Sioux Falls. The land here is defined by an immense, quiet openness, broken only by the thin, winding ribbon of Mud Creek, which marks the low ground just a mile away. To the north, the distant rise of The Mound provides the only significant interruption to the flat, expansive view, while the rugged, ancient rock formations of Gitchie Manitou State Preserve sit twelve miles away, offering a stark contrast to the surrounding fields. During the late autumn, the light turns a sharp, brittle yellow, illuminating the stubble of the harvested earth and casting long, thin shadows that seem to stretch for miles across the stillness of the landscape.

Hills functions as a purposeful outpost of agriculture, where the lives of the residents are synchronized with the heavy machinery of the harvest and the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons. The local economy remains tethered to the productivity of the soil, with grain elevators standing as silent, industrial sentinels against the weather-beaten gray of a winter sky. Beyond the immediate fields, the Roeman-Stettrichs Area serves as a refuge for the local wildlife, preserving a fragment of the wilder terrain that once dominated this interior region. Life in Hills maintains a steady, internal momentum, rooted in the labor of the farm and the enduring patience required to survive the deep, biting cold of the plains. It is a place where history is measured in the cycles of the crop and the quiet resilience of those who call this wide, inland territory their own.

About This Hills Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hills, Minnesota. Coordinates: 43.528028, -96.358647. 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 Hills includes the ZIP code (56138), telephone area code (320), county seat of Rock County (Luverne), and school district assignment (Hills-Beaver Creek 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.