Mountain Lake, Minnesota

Mountain Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Mountain Lake lost 55 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.8%. In the latest year it moved by -18.

Mountain Lake covers 1.63 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,193 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Mountain Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mountain Lake is in

All of Mountain Lake's residents live in Cottonwood County, which had 11,338 residents in 2024. Mountain Lake holds 17.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mountain Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mountain Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 56159. 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 Mountain Lake is

The Census internal point of Mountain Lake is at 43.940100, -94.927700. Saint Paul, the capital, is 114.1 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Windom, MN (4,797 people), 10.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 94.2 miles away.

Daylight in Mountain Lake

At 43.94° N, Mountain Lake gets about 15 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mountain Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Windom, 10.6 miles away, with 4,797 people.