Winsted Minnesota Map

About Winsted, Minnesota

Winsted is a locality in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,240. The population density is 457.1 people per km². Winsted is located at 44.9639°N, 94.0475°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Winsted is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55395.

Winsted occupies a flat expanse of the Minnesota interior where the horizon pulls the sky low over the black, fertile earth. It lies 15.0 miles west-northwest of Waconia, MN (from Waconia, MN: bearing 302°T), and is situated 9.8 miles west of Watertown. The landscape is defined by the persistent presence of Winsted Lake, whose waters catch the flat, pale light of long winter afternoons and hold the reflection of passing clouds in a stillness that feels heavy with the weight of the coming frost. Two miles to the east, the depression of the Swan Lakebed marks the ancient, low-lying drainage of the prairie, while Crane Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the soil, its banks thick with the brush and tall grasses that thrive in this inland climate. The air here holds a crisp, biting clarity, especially when the sun dips behind the distant, flattened edges of the fields and leaves the world in a wash of muted, bruised gray.

Winsted emerged from the nineteenth-century push into the agricultural interior, a settlement built upon the labor of those who turned the stubborn prairie sod into rows of corn and soy. The local economy remains anchored to this cycle of planting and harvest, a rhythm that dictates the pace of life far more than the clocks on the brick facades of the main thoroughfares. Five miles away, the Clouster Lake State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary for the migratory birds and white-tailed deer that move through the thickets, a reminder of the wilder, unplowed state of the land. Life in Winsted follows a quiet, deliberate course, where the legacy of hard winters and the steady hum of machinery define the daily character of the people who persist in this quiet corner of the plains.

About This Winsted Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Winsted, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.963852, -94.047472. 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 Winsted includes the ZIP code (55395), telephone area code (612, 952), county seat of McLeod County (Glencoe), and school district assignment (Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted).

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.