Sunfish Lake Minnesota Map

About Sunfish Lake, Minnesota

Sunfish Lake is a locality in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 522. The population density is 134.5 people per km². Sunfish Lake is located at 44.8708°N, 93.0986°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Sunfish Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55118.

Sunfish Lake occupies a hollow of glacial-carved terrain where the land yields to deep, quiet depressions and the heavy silence of mature hardwoods. It lies 2.1 miles east-southeast of Mendota Heights, MN (from Mendota Heights, MN: bearing 114°T), and is situated 5.7 miles south of St. Paul. Paul. The topography here is defined by a series of kettle ponds and steep, erratic slopes that rise toward the nearby elevation of Pilot Knob, creating a landscape that feels sequestered from the broader prairie expanses. Sunlight behaves differently in these wooded pockets, filtering through the canopy in long, amber shafts that catch the dust of late afternoon as it settles over the water. A short distance away, the Minnesota River exerts a subtle pull on the regional drainage, though the immediate vicinity remains characterized by the stillness of the local basin and the dense, green foliage of Musser Park that anchors the neighborhood in a state of permanent, protected growth.

History within Sunfish Lake resonates in the quiet preservation of its large, private lots and the deliberate absence of commercial density, reflecting a long-standing commitment to maintaining a rural character amidst suburban expansion. The local economy is largely defined by the stewardship of this environment, where the value of the land is measured in its ability to retain a sense of solitude rather than in industrial yield. Residents often look toward the wider metropolitan influence for professional life, yet they return to a pace dictated by the seasonal shifts—from the biting, iron-hard winters that lock the landscape into a gray stillness to the sudden, verdant urgency of the spring thaw. While the cascading waters of Minnehaha Falls draw visitors to the north, the daily rhythm here remains domestic and private, a slow, deliberate engagement with the earth that keeps the modern world at a respectful distance.

About This Sunfish Lake Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sunfish Lake, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.870799, -93.098551. 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 Sunfish Lake includes the ZIP code (55118), telephone area code (612, 952), county seat of Dakota County (Hastings), and school district assignment (West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan).

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.