[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.36 square miles (3.52 km2), all land.

[5] It is located one-half mile from the Jackson County line, on section 25 of Hersey Township.

Source of name: In 1880, the St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad was purchased by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, or the Omaha Road, and there was already a station named Hersey on the latter road's track in Wisconsin.

In order to avoid confusion, the name of Hersey was changed, briefly to Nobles County Station.

E. F. Drake, president of the St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad once stated that the name "was changed to Brewster after a director of the Omaha Road."

But a brochure later put out by the Chicago and North Western Railway Company stated that "the present name was given in honor of Brewster, a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, which was named in honor of Elder William Brewster, one of the first settlers of Plymouth Colony.

An election was held on December 14, 1898, and out of the 28 ballots cast, only one was opposed to idea of municipal government.

Brewster is located in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, represented by Jim Hagedorn, a Republican.

City council members are Mike Bourquin, Ed Busch, John Garmer and Andy Bedbury.

[10] Brewster is located in Hersey Township and is represented by Nobles County Commissioner Marvin Zylstra.