Walnut Grove Minnesota Map

About Walnut Grove, Minnesota

Walnut Grove is a locality in Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 751. The population density is 265.8 people per km². Walnut Grove is located at 44.2230°N, 95.4694°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Walnut Grove is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56180.

Walnut Grove claims the vast, open horizon of the southwestern Minnesota prairie, where the sky exerts a heavy, luminous pressure upon the earth. It lies 22.1 miles southeast of Marshall, MN (from Marshall, MN: bearing 134°T), and is situated 7.4 miles east of Tracy. The land here is defined by the subtle, persistent erosion of the plains, where the modest flow of Plum Creek carves a quiet path through the soil just a mile from the center of Walnut Grove. To the west, the distant rise of Buffalo Ridge anchors the view, a faint, blurred line against the clouds, while the nearby Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge preserves the original, unplowed character of the grasses that once swayed across this entire expanse. In the late autumn, the light turns a thin, brittle gold, illuminating the dried stalks of the fields and the deep, silent expanse of the Sigel Lakebed, which lies waiting for the spring thaw to reclaim its hollows.

Agriculture remains the pulse of the local economy, with the rhythm of the seasons dictating the movement of machines and the quiet labor of the people who work the heavy, black loam. This landscape carries the echoes of early homesteading, a history defined by the struggle to tame a wild, wind-swept geography that demanded resilience from those who arrived to break the sod. Beyond the immediate fields, the presence of Robbins Slough reminds the traveler of the region’s glacial, uneven foundation, a quiet basin where the water reflects the shifting moods of the continental climate. Life in Walnut Grove proceeds with an understated gravity, shaped by the memory of harsh, legendary winters and the enduring, productive silence of the surrounding plains, where the primary harvest serves as both a livelihood and a deep, ancestral connection to the land itself.

About This Walnut Grove Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Walnut Grove, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.223012, -95.469449. 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 Walnut Grove includes the ZIP code (56180), telephone area code (320), county seat of Redwood County (Redwood Falls), and school district assignment (Westbrook-Walnut Grove Schools).

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.