Kinney Minnesota Map

About Kinney, Minnesota

Kinney is a locality in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 152. The population density is 15.0 people per km². Kinney is located at 47.5141°N, 92.7307°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Kinney is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 55758, 55768.

Kinney emerges from the northern landscape as a quiet assertion of human presence against the vast, rugged expanse of the Iron Range. It lies 11.4 miles east-northeast of Hibbing, MN (from Hibbing, MN: bearing 58°T), and is situated 9.1 miles west of Virginia. The ground here is shaped by the ancient, stubborn geology of the Laurentian Divide, which rises like a dark, serrated spine eight miles to the north and dictates the slow drainage of the surrounding woodland. Kinney Lake sits at the center of the local geography, its surface often catching the bruised, violet light of late autumn afternoons, while the surrounding terrain remains marked by the low, scrubby growth of the North Woods. Three miles away, Timber Creek winds through the underbrush, its waters moving with a deliberate, cold persistence that mirrors the stoic character of the land itself. The air in Kinney holds a distinct, metallic sharpness, a reminder of the deep winters that define the rhythm of the year and turn the earth into a solid, unyielding floor.

Economic life in Kinney has long been tethered to the extraction of the earth’s mineral wealth, a history that colors the local perspective on labor and endurance. The legacy of Scandinavian and Ojibwe settlement remains visible in the quiet, pragmatic architecture and the unadorned way people navigate the local Miscellaneous SRMA, a space that offers a rare, reclaimed stillness amidst the remnants of industrial activity. Life in Kinney moves with the steady, predictable pace of a place that has seen the boom and quietude of mining cycles, leaving behind a community that values the solidity of the ground beneath its feet. Nineteen miles away, the Floodwood Memorial Forest provides a dense, green counterpoint to the open, excavated reaches of the range, serving as a reminder of the wild resilience that persists whenever human industry pauses. Everything about the local atmosphere suggests a place that does not seek attention, but rather exists as a necessary, functional anchor in the interior of the continent.

About This Kinney Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kinney, Minnesota. Coordinates: 47.514095, -92.730737. 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 Kinney includes the ZIP code (55758, 55768), telephone area code (218), county seat of St. Louis County (Duluth), and school district assignment (Mountain Iron-Buhl 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.