Forest Mills | |
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  Forest Mills  Forest Mills | |
| Coordinates: 44°17′52″N92°38′27″W / 44.29778°N 92.64083°W Coordinates: 44°17′52″N92°38′27″W / 44.29778°N 92.64083°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Minnesota |
| County | Goodhue |
| Township | Zumbrota |
| Elevation | 1,010 ft (310 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 55992 |
| Area code(s) | 507 |
| GNIS feature ID | 654707 [1] |
Forest Mills is an unincorporated community in Zumbrota Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States.
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Zumbrota Township is a township in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 591 at the 2000 census.
Goodhue County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, the population was 46,183. Its county seat is Red Wing. Nearly all of Prairie Island Indian Community is within the county.
The community is located near the junction of County 48 Boulevard and County 10 Boulevard.
The North Fork of the Zumbro River flows through the community. Forest Mills is located within ZIP code 55992 based in Zumbrota.
The Zumbro River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the Driftless Area of southeastern Minnesota in the United States. It is 64.6 miles (104.0 km) long from the confluence of its principal tributaries and drains a watershed of 1,428 square miles (3,700 km2). The river's name in English is a change from its French name Rivière des Embarras due to its mouth located near Pine Island in the Mississippi River; the Dakota name for this river is Wapka Wazi Oju, having reference to the grove of great white pines at Pine Island.
Zumbrota is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, along the North Fork of the Zumbro River. The population was 3,252 at the 2010 census. It promotes itself as "the only Zumbrota in the world."
