Cresson is an unincorporated community located in Pipestone County, Minnesota, United States.

Cresson appears on the Elkton SW U.S. Geological Survey Map.

[2][1] Close to the adjacent states of South Dakota to the west and Iowa to the south, Cresson lies in rural southwest Minnesota near the Pipestone National Monument, a National Park Service property established in 1937.

The monument's 301 acres protect tallgrass prairie and quarries of red pipestone, or catlinite, traditionally used by Native Americans to make pipes.

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