West Concord Minnesota Map

About West Concord, Minnesota

West Concord is a locality in Dodge County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 861. The population density is 307.0 people per km². West Concord is located at 44.1536°N, 92.8996°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. West Concord is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55985.

West Concord emerges from the flat, expansive plains of southeastern Minnesota as a quiet collection of structures defined by the vastness of the sky above them. It lies 16.9 miles east-northeast of Owatonna, MN (from Owatonna, MN: bearing 73°T), and is situated 9.0 miles north-northwest of Dodge Center. The horizon remains unbroken by the jagged heights of Table Rock, which looms only as a faint, ghostly suggestion thirty-two miles to the west, leaving the immediate landscape to the steady, rhythmic persistence of agricultural fields. A mile from the center, the Middle Fork Zumbro River carves a serpentine path through the soil, its waters moving with a deliberate, muddy grace that anchors the local topography. During the long, deep winters, the air turns sharp and crystalline, freezing the moisture into a brittle, biting clarity that demands a slow, careful pace from anyone walking the perimeter of the fields.

West Concord carries the weight of a regional history rooted in the cultivation of the earth and the steady labor of the inland plains. The local economy persists through the cycles of the harvest, where the yellow light of autumn afternoons illuminates the silos and weathered barns that serve as the primary landmarks of the area. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the Schletty State Wildlife Management Area offers a refuge of native grasses and thickets, a five-mile stretch where the land returns to a wilder, unmanaged state. Residents often look toward the horizon or toward the distant waters of Rice Lake, eight miles away, recognizing that the character of West Concord is built upon this intersection of hardworking soil and the expansive, indifferent beauty of the Midwest climate.

About This West Concord Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of West Concord, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.153575, -92.899643. 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 West Concord includes the ZIP code (55985), telephone area code (218), county seat of Dodge County (Mantorville), and school district assignment (Triton 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.