Storden Minnesota Map

About Storden, Minnesota

Storden is a locality in Cottonwood County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 225. The population density is 393.1 people per km². Storden is located at 44.0377°N, 95.3183°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Storden is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56174.

Storden occupies a quiet expanse of the southwestern Minnesota prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and flat beneath a sky that seems to hold more light than the earth below. It lies 32.0 miles north-northeast of Worthington, MN (from Worthington, MN: bearing 26°T), and is situated 15.5 miles northwest of Windom. The land is defined by the deep, fertile soil of the plains, punctuated only by the subtle depression of the Berry Lakebed and the nearby presence of Double Lake. A short distance away, Highwater Creek cuts a narrow, meandering path through the terrain, its banks marking the quiet boundary of the Highwater State Wildlife Management Area. During the autumn, the air grows crisp and sharp, smelling of dry corn husks and the first frost, while the golden grasses catch the low, slanted glow of the afternoon sun, turning the entire landscape into a study of amber and pale gray.

Storden emerged from the expansion of the nineteenth-century agricultural frontier, a place built upon the labor of those who broke the sod to cultivate the heavy, dark loam. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, driven by the planting and harvesting of crops that define the regional identity. Life here moves with a steady, deliberate pace, far removed from the bustle of the distant cities, though the memory of the landscape's geological past remains present in the distant, soft blue outline of Buffalo Ridge visible on the clearest days. Storden holds a particular stillness, a sense of endurance that persists through the long, quiet winters, reflecting the modest, grounded character of a place that finds its purpose in the honest work of the soil.

About This Storden Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Storden, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.037736, -95.31833. 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 Storden includes the ZIP code (56174), telephone area code (320), county seat of Cottonwood County (Windom), and school district assignment (Red Rock Central 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.