Vergas, MN

Vergas is a city in northern Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The 2020 census counted 348 residents. The community was platted in 1903 as Altona, but quickly changed its name to match the name of its Soo Line Railroad station, which had been named after a series of sleeping cars that traveled between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Vergas is located at the junction of County Highway 4, County Highway 17, and former State Highway 228. Vergas's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Minnesota setting. The local scoop is how Vergas's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The community is at the west end of Long Lake.