Osakis Minnesota Map

About Osakis, Minnesota

Osakis is a locality in Douglas County, Minnesota, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,771. The population density is 356.0 people per km². Osakis is located at 45.8669°N, 95.1523°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Osakis is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56360.

Osakis occupies a quiet reach of the high plains where the land levels into a mosaic of dark soil and orderly fields. It lies 10.9 miles east of Alexandria, MN (from Alexandria, MN: bearing 97°T), and is situated 13.1 miles northwest of Sauk Centre. The horizon remains vast and unobstructed, save for the occasional silhouette of a distant silo or the heavy, low-hanging clouds that signal the onset of winter. At the center of this terrain lies Lake Osakis, a deep, glacial basin that dictates the rhythm of the seasons and holds the chill of the air long after the frost has begun to recede. A mile away, the Osakis State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary for the tall grasses and native brush, where the light at dusk turns the landscape into a bruised, golden violet that seems to hold its breath against the coming night.

Agriculture remains the quiet engine of Osakis, a legacy of the settlers who first broke the prairie sod to plant wheat and corn in the fertile, heavy earth. Fairfield Creek winds through the outlying acreage, a slender vein of water that feeds the low-lying marshes and sustains the local ecology beyond the reach of the plow. The pace of life here is defined by the harvest and the slow, deliberate work of maintaining the land, a labor that has persisted through generations of Scandinavian and agrarian influence. People here move with a certain gravity, grounded by the long, cold winters and the enduring necessity of keeping their machines and homesteads in good repair, finding a steady, unadorned peace in the permanence of the fields.

About This Osakis Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Osakis, Minnesota. Coordinates: 45.866908, -95.152252. 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 Osakis includes the ZIP code (56360), telephone area code (320), county seat of Douglas County (Alexandria), and school district assignment (Osakis 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.