56538 ZIP Code
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ZIP code 56538 covers Fergus Falls, Minnesota. It has no Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area, which is how the Census Bureau treats ZIP codes that are not residential neighbourhoods — PO box-only ranges, military addresses, and codes assigned to a single large organisation. There are no population or income figures for it because nobody is counted as living there.
- Time zone
- Central UTC-06:00observes daylight saving time
- Businesses
- 17
Where 56538 is
Fergus Falls, Minnesota — the point the Postal Service gives for this ZIP code. A ZIP code is a set of delivery routes rather than an area, so this marks its centre, not its boundary.
Business and employment
Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2022
| Business establishments | 17 |
|---|---|
| People employed | 888 |
| Annual payroll | $41,517,000 |
Climate
NOAA US Climate Normals 1991-2020, from the nearest weather station with a full year of records. The station and its distance are named above, because a station forty kilometres away describes somewhere else.
| Weather station | FERGUS FALLS, MN US3.2 km away |
|---|---|
| Rain in a year | 27 in |
Average high and low by month
| January | 18.4°F / -0.4°F1.29 in rain |
|---|---|
| February | 22.3°F / 3.2°F0.83 in rain |
| March | 35.6°F / 18.1°F1.15 in rain |
| April | 52.9°F / 31.8°F2 in rain |
| May | 66.8°F / 45°F3.86 in rain |
| June | 76.3°F / 56.3°F4.35 in rain |
| July | 80.8°F / 60.7°F3.28 in rain |
| August | 79.4°F / 57.1°F2.95 in rain |
| September | 70.8°F / 48.9°F3.04 in rain |
| October | 55.7°F / 35.1°F2.37 in rain |
| November | 38°F / 21.4°F1.04 in rain |
| December | 24.4°F / 7.9°F0.71 in rain |
Nearby ZIP codes
The closest ZIP codes by centre point, which is not the same as sharing a border.
| 56537 Fergus Falls, MN | 1.3 km away |
|---|---|
| 56533 Elizabeth, MN | 11.6 km away |
| 56324 Dalton, MN | 17.4 km away |
| 56543 Foxhome, MN | 18.6 km away |
| 56586 Underwood, MN | 18.8 km away |
| 56534 Erhard, MN | 23.6 km away |
| 56590 Wendell, MN | 25.4 km away |
| 56515 Battle Lake, MN | 28.1 km away |
Location, counties and time zone
County shares from Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files. Time zone from the USDOT National Transportation Atlas, which renders the boundaries written into 49 CFR Part 71.
| Time zone | Central (UTC-06:00 standard) |
|---|---|
| Daylight saving time | Observed |
| Latitude, longitude | 46.2830, -96.0776 |
Figures are published for this ZIP code or its Census tabulation area unless a section says otherwise. Estimates whose margin of error made them unreliable are omitted rather than shown. Sources: US Census Bureau, CDC, IRS.