Cold Spring, Minnesota

Cold Spring population, 2020 to 2024

Cold Spring added 154 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +39.

Cold Spring covers 2.80 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,545 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Cold Spring is close to the typical town.

What county Cold Spring is in

All of Cold Spring's residents live in Stearns County, which had 163,997 residents in 2024. Cold Spring holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cold Spring

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cold Spring by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56320. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Cold Spring is

The Census internal point of Cold Spring is at 45.458300, -94.428200. Saint Paul, the capital, is 73.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Joseph, MN (6,992 people), 9.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 66.0 miles away.

Daylight in Cold Spring

At 45.46° N, Cold Spring gets about 15 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cold Spring

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Richmond, 4.1 miles away, with 1,521 people.