# Holmes City, Minnesota

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**Holmes City** is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Douglas County](/source/Douglas_County,_Minnesota), [Minnesota](/source/Minnesota), United States. Holmes City is 9 miles (14 km) southwest of [Alexandria](/source/Alexandria,_Minnesota). Holmes City has a [post office](/source/Post_office) with [ZIP code](/source/ZIP_code) 56341.[2]

A post office called Holmes City has been in operation since 1868.[3] The community was named for US Supreme Court Justice [Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.](/source/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.), who vacationed there as a child.[4]

## References

1. [ZIP Code Lookup](http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&zip=56341&Go=Go)

1. ["Douglas County"](http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Douglas). Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 20 May 2015.

1. Upham, Warren (1920). [*Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance*](https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog). Minnesota Historical Society. p. [177](https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n196)

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