Medicine Lake Minnesota Map

About Medicine Lake, Minnesota

Medicine Lake is a locality in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 337. The population density is 752.1 people per km². Medicine Lake is located at 44.9952°N, 93.4155°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Medicine Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55441.

Medicine Lake occupies a low-lying basin where the glacial remnants of the interior plains hold the sky in a wide, reflective embrace. It lies 2.2 miles east-southeast of Plymouth, MN (from Plymouth, MN: bearing 118°T), and is situated 7.5 miles west of Minneapolis. Bassett Creek threads through the landscape, acting as the quiet, persistent pulse that carries runoff toward the distant Mississippi, while East Medicine Lake provides a verdant threshold for those seeking the water’s edge. In the cooling light of an autumn evening, the surface of Medicine Lake turns the color of hammered lead, mirroring the long, flat shadows cast by the trees along the perimeter. The air here carries a weight of moisture and earth, a sensory signature of the inland Midwest that lingers long after the sun dips behind the distant silhouette of Sunset Hill.

Early settlers were drawn to this geography for the promise of fertile soil and the steady flow of the creek, which once powered the small-scale milling that defined the initial economy. Today, the residential character of the locality reflects a shift from those agrarian origins, though the quiet, deliberate pace of the region remains rooted in the seasonal cycles of the North. While Saint Anthony Falls roars only a short distance away, the atmosphere here remains defined by the stillness of the water and the deliberate preservation of its natural margins. Life in Medicine Lake unfolds with a steady, unadorned grace, where the legacy of the land is measured not in grand monuments, but in the enduring silence of the frost and the slow, seasonal migration of light across the open basin.

About This Medicine Lake Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Medicine Lake, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.995242, -93.415508. 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 Medicine Lake includes the ZIP code (55441), telephone area code (763), county seat of Hennepin County (Minneapolis), and school district assignment (Wayzata 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.