Benton County, Minnesota Map
Explore Benton County, Minnesota with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 5 cities and towns in Benton County below.
Interactive Map of Benton County, Minnesota
| County | Benton |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County Seat | Foley |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 45.685022 |
| Longitude | -94.021984 |
| Cities & Towns | 5 |
| Area Codes | 320 |
About Benton County, Minnesota
Benton County occupies a space where the deciduous transition zone yields to the expansive, open horizons of the prairie. The Mississippi River serves as a defining western boundary, its waters moving with a heavy, deliberate coldness that mirrors the endurance of the local climate. The land itself is characterized by sandy outwash plains and pockets of rich, dark loam, shaped by the glacial retreat that left behind a landscape of subtle, low-lying ridges and drainage basins. During the late autumn, the light here turns thin and brittle, casting long, sharp shadows across the stubble of harvested fields and the quiet stretches of scrub oak that hold the soil against the seasonal winds.
Benton County emerged during the mid-nineteenth century, carved from the wilderness by those who saw potential in the convergence of timber and river access. The early settlers arrived with trunks packed for a permanent migration, bringing with them a pragmatic Scandinavian stoicism and the industrious habits of New Englanders. The selection of the county seat became a matter of local gravity, eventually settling in a place that offered a central position for the administration of law and commerce. The history of this territory is marked by the slow, persistent labor of clearing brush and breaking ground, a process that required a quiet fortitude to withstand the isolation of the long, gray months when the frost drove deep into the earth.
Agriculture remains the pulse of the regional character, expressed in the vast, geometric order of fields and the functional architecture of silos that mark the approach to any horizon. Life here follows the cycle of the sun and the demands of the season, maintaining a grounded pace that prizes reliability over spectacle. The air often carries the scent of damp earth or coming snow, a sensory tether to the land that persists even in the areas where light manufacturing and modern enterprise have taken root. On quiet afternoons, the atmosphere takes on a singular stillness, where the sound of a distant tractor or the wind moving through the dry grass emphasizes the vastness of the sky and the enduring, unadorned reality of the Midwestern plains.
Cities and Towns in Benton County
About This Benton County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Benton County, Minnesota alongside links to detailed street maps for 5 cities and towns. The county seat is Foley. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
