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Badger Minnesota Map

Explore Badger, Minnesota, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Badger, Minnesota

How to Use This Badger, Minnesota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Badger, Minnesota. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Minnesota or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Badger.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Badger
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Roseau County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	48.782478
Longitude	-96.014448
Population	429
Density	124.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	56714
Area Code	320
County Seat	Roseau
School District	Badger Public School District

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About Badger, Minnesota

Badger is a locality in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 429. The population density is 124.0 people per km². Badger is located at 48.7825°N, 96.0144°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Badger is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56714.

Badger occupies a flat, expansive stretch of northern prairie where the horizon pulls the sky down toward the earth with unrelenting gravity. It lies 104.5 miles north-northwest of Bemidji, MN (from Bemidji, MN: bearing 330°T), and is situated 12.3 miles west-southwest of Roseau. The landscape around Badger is defined by the heavy, dark soil of the Red River Valley, a terrain so level that the drainage of the South Branch Two Rivers three miles away feels like a slow, deliberate migration across the plains. To the north and east, the land holds onto the memory of ancient glacial retreats, leaving behind subtle depressions like Carlson Pothole, where the water stands still and silver against the tall, swaying grasses. In the distance, the faint, hazy rise of Juneberry Ridge provides the only interruption to the vast geometry of the fields, a gentle silhouette that anchors the view when the autumn sun turns the stubble to a deep, burnished gold.

Agriculture dictates the pulse of life in Badger, where the heavy machinery of the harvest season leaves rhythmic tracks across the fields and defines the annual cycle of labor. The town emerged from the necessity of the rail line, serving as a quiet nexus for the farmers who coax wheat and sugar beets from the stubborn, fertile ground. Beyond the cultivated rows, the Moose Marsh State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of dense brush and wetlands, preserving the wilder character of the region that existed long before the first homesteads arrived. Residents move through the day with a focused, steady pace, shaped by the knowledge that the winters will eventually arrive to turn the landscape into a vast, silent expanse of white, demanding a resilience that is as much a part of the local fiber as the soil itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Nereson State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.0 mi, 162° S
Roseau River State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.1 mi, 337° NW
Roseau County Museum (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 069° E
Lost River State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 13.3 mi, 020° N
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 14.1 mi, 043° NE
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.6 mi, 243° SW · 12k acres
Hayes Lake State Park (State Park) — 22.4 mi, 117° SE
Beltrami Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 22.9 mi, 114° SE · 174k acres
Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.5 mi, 180° S · 124k acres
Lake Bronson State Park (State Park) — 24.9 mi, 263° W
Veteran War Memorial (Monument) — 25.0 mi, 196° S
Goose Capitol of Minnesota Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 25.0 mi, 196° S
Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 26.7 mi, 176° S · 5,094 acres
Karlstad Pavilion (Theatre) — 27.2 mi, 239° SW
Kittson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 29.6 mi, 264° W
Warroad Heritage Center and Museum (Museum) — 32.8 mi, 075° E
Holt Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 34.8 mi, 194° S
Anderson/Bagaas Burial (Monument) — 39.9 mi, 234° SW
Viking Farmer Museam (Museum) — 42.8 mi, 205° SW
Northern Most Point of the Continental United States of America (Attraction) — 56.9 mi, 043° NE
Northern Most Point Contiguous U.S.A Angle Inlet, MN (Attraction) — 61.2 mi, 050° NE
Heritage Village (Museum) — 73.9 mi, 219° SW
Sweetlight Gallery (Gallery) — 74.8 mi, 202° S
River Cinema 15 (Cinema) — 75.1 mi, 219° SW
Empire Theatre (Theatre) — 75.5 mi, 219° SW
Community Art Center (Arts Centre) — 75.9 mi, 162° S

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