Parkers Prairie Minnesota Map

About Parkers Prairie, Minnesota

Parkers Prairie is a locality in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,020. The population density is 316.3 people per km². Parkers Prairie is located at 46.1530°N, 95.3289°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Parkers Prairie is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56361.

Parkers Prairie occupies a wide, expansive stretch of the Minnesota interior where the horizon feels like a physical weight against the sky. It lies 18.6 miles north of Alexandria, MN (from Alexandria, MN: bearing 7°T), and is situated 33.9 miles north-northwest of Sauk Centre. The landscape is defined by the steady, glacial patience of the terrain, where Lake Adley sits as a still, reflective pane held within the earth’s cold grip. Three miles to the west, County Ditch Number Twentyfour carves a quiet, functional path through the topsoil, directing the runoff of melting snows and summer rains. To the north, the Otter Tail County Waterfowl Production Area provides a sanctuary of tall grasses and scrub, a place where the air carries the sharp, clean scent of damp peat and drying stalks. In the distance, the faint, jagged silhouette of Black Peak marks the edge of the world, a reminder that the land here is not merely flat, but part of a vast, slow-breathing continental plate.

Parkers Prairie sustains itself through the quiet, recurring cycles of agriculture and the modest industry of the plains. The local economy remains anchored to the productivity of the surrounding fields, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of commerce and the movement of heavy machinery along the grid of rural roads. Life in Parkers Prairie retains the character of an older, agrarian persistence, marked by the Scandinavian roots of those who first broke the prairie sod and built lives against the backdrop of the long, deep winters. There is a particular quality to the light here during the transition of seasons, a pale, brittle gold that sharpens the edges of the grain silos and the quiet main street, suggesting a place that values the endurance of the harvest over the haste of the modern world.

About This Parkers Prairie Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Parkers Prairie, Minnesota. Coordinates: 46.153018, -95.328924. 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 Parkers Prairie includes the ZIP code (56361), telephone area code (320), county seat of Otter Tail County (Fergus Falls), and school district assignment (Parkers Prairie 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.