Plainview Minnesota Map

About Plainview, Minnesota

Plainview is a locality in Wabasha County, Minnesota, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,483. The population density is 627.8 people per km². Plainview is located at 44.1650°N, 92.1716°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Plainview is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55964.

Plainview unfolds across a landscape of high, fertile prairie that yields to the quiet, persistent carving of the earth by Middle Creek, which runs a mere mile from the center of activity. It lies 17.8 miles northeast of Rochester, MN (from Rochester, MN: bearing 56°T), and is situated 14.5 miles north-northwest of St. Charles. Charles. The horizon holds the distant, muted suggestion of Hoosier Ridge, providing a permanent backdrop to the expansive sky that dominates the upper Midwest. Within the immediate vicinity, Wedgewood Park offers a local patch of green, a place where the light at dusk settles in long, amber bars across the grass, grounding the atmosphere in a stillness that feels both ancient and immediate. While the Dorer Pools lie eleven miles out and the Richard J Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest sits fourteen miles beyond, the land here remains defined by the open, agricultural rhythm of the fields that stretch toward the edges of the horizon.

Plainview retains the steady, industrious character of a settlement built upon the strength of the surrounding soil, where the economy has long been tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest. The history of the place is etched into the architecture of its main thoroughfares, reflecting a heritage of hard work and the pragmatic Scandinavian influence that shaped so much of this inland territory. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a season, marked by the sharp, bracing air of deep winters and the sudden, lush intensity of the growing months. Residents move between the local businesses and the quiet residential streets with a sense of shared purpose, maintaining a rhythm that honors the endurance of those who first broke the sod of this plateau.

About This Plainview Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Plainview, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.164966, -92.171557. 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 Plainview includes the ZIP code (55964), telephone area code (218), county seat of Wabasha County (Wabasha), and school district assignment (Plainview-Elgin-Millville).

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.