Johnson Minnesota Map

About Johnson, Minnesota

Johnson is a locality in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 24. The population density is 29.9 people per km². Johnson is located at 45.5727°N, 96.2953°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Johnson is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56236.

Johnson sits as a quiet sentinel upon the vast, flat expanse of the Minnesota prairie, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun whole at the end of every day. It lies 49.3 miles west-southwest of Alexandria, MN (from Alexandria, MN: bearing 244°T), and is situated 18.5 miles west of Morris. The land here is defined by the persistent, open sky and the rhythmic geometry of agricultural fields that turn from deep, verdant green to the pale gold of harvest. Two miles away, the West Fork Twelvemile Creek threads through the landscape, its banks providing a subtle change in the terrain’s elevation. Four miles distant, the terrain dips into the ancient, silent basin of the Moonshine Lakebed, while the nearby waters of Gravel Lake offer a reflective surface that mimics the shifting, cloud-streaked heavens. The air carries a crisp, clean clarity, especially as autumn winds begin to sweep across the open plains, signaling the arrival of the long, deep winters that have long defined the character of the region.

Johnson serves as a steady anchor for the local agricultural economy, where the cycles of planting and harvest dictate the pulse of daily life. The proximity of the Big Stone County Waterfowl Production Area reminds residents of the enduring wildness that persists alongside these working farms, drawing birds that congregate in the wetlands as the seasons turn. History remains embedded in the modest structures and the enduring patterns of the families who first broke this sod, their legacy maintained in the quiet, industrious persistence of the modern community. Life in Johnson moves with the deliberate pace of a place that values endurance over speed, marked by the simple, profound beauty of a solitary tractor light cutting through the dusk or the way the winter frost transforms the prairie into a vast, sparkling mirror of ice.

About This Johnson Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Johnson, Minnesota. Coordinates: 45.572741, -96.295337. 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 Johnson includes the ZIP code (56236), telephone area code (320), county seat of Big Stone County (Ortonville), and school district assignment (Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley).

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.