Mentor Minnesota Map

About Mentor, Minnesota

Mentor is a locality in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 104. The population density is 21.1 people per km². Mentor is located at 47.6983°N, 96.1412°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mentor is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56736.

Mentor emerges from the flat, industrious stretches of the northern plains, where the horizon pulls the sky tight against a landscape of deep soil and seasonal extremes. It lies 60.8 miles west-northwest of Bemidji, MN (from Bemidji, MN: bearing 285°T), and is situated 29.1 miles south of Thief River Falls. The light here possesses a particular, silvered clarity during the long, quiet afternoons of autumn, revealing the subtle geometry of fields that slope toward the nearby Maple Lake. To the south, the terrain softens into the quiet, protected grasses of the Mentor Prairie State Wildlife Management Area, where the wind carries the scent of dry earth and dormant stalks. Beyond the immediate reach of the houses, the land is marked by the presence of County Ditch Number Fourteen, a vein that directs the slow, deliberate movement of groundwater through a region defined by the weight of winter snow and the sudden, vivid green of a short, intense growing season.

Mentor maintains a rhythm dictated by the harvest and the persistent, quiet labor of those who work the surrounding acreage. The history of the place is etched into the sturdy, unadorned architecture of its buildings, which stand as practical responses to the cold, northern climate and the demands of an agricultural economy. Life in Mentor unfolds with a steady, predictable pace, favoring the persistence of family ties and the continuity of small-scale commerce over the frantic pace of larger hubs. Even as the modern world shifts, there remains a lingering sense of the Scandinavian and Ojibwe influences that shaped the early settlement of these plains, leaving a quiet dignity in the way the local people observe the changing color of the leaves or prepare for the deep, inevitable frost that descends each year.

About This Mentor Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mentor, Minnesota. Coordinates: 47.698298, -96.141155. 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 Mentor includes the ZIP code (56736), telephone area code (320), county seat of Polk County (Crookston), and school district assignment (Win-E-Mac 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.