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Benton Minnesota Map

Explore Benton, 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 Benton, Minnesota

How to Use This Benton, Minnesota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Benton, 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 Benton.

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	Benton
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Carver County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	44.776073
Longitude	-93.781074
Population	280
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	55322, 56330
Area Code	612, 952, 320
County Seat	Chaska

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About Benton, Minnesota

Benton is a locality in Carver County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Benton is located at 44.7761°N, 93.7811°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 55322, 56330.

Benton reveals itself through a sprawling expanse of flat, fertile earth where the sky asserts a vast, unyielding dominance over the horizon. It lies 5.2 miles south of Waconia, MN (from Waconia, MN: bearing 177°T), and is situated 8.8 miles west of Chaska. The landscape surrounding Benton remains defined by the stillness of Benton Lake, whose waters reflect the changing moods of the seasons, from the hard, crystalline silence of winter to the shimmering, insect-thick warmth of midsummer. Only a mile away, the quiet passage of Carver Creek carves a thin, meandering artery through the soil, providing a subtle contrast to the broader, open fields that characterize the region. On clear evenings, the distant silhouette of Mount Gilboa offers a faint, jagged interruption to the otherwise level plane, grounding the view in the ancient geology of the continent.

Agriculture remains the singular, rhythmic pulse of life here, as the seasonal cycle of planting and harvest dictates the tempo for those who work the land. Beyond the tilled acreage, the Schneewind State Wildlife Management Area provides a sanctuary for the native grasses and woodland fringes that once dominated this territory long before the arrival of modern homesteads. History in Benton is not found in grand monuments, but in the enduring patterns of the families who settled these plains, their heritage woven into the quiet maintenance of the land and the preservation of the nearby Kennison Lakebed. Life in Benton moves with a deliberate, measured gravity, where the quality of the light at dusk—a bruised, golden violet—transfigures the grain silos and fence lines into something starkly, beautifully permanent.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Schneewind State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 320° NW
Sudheimer Park (Local Park) — 4.0 mi, 353° N
Interlaken Park (Local Park) — 4.3 mi, 007° N
Carver Highlands Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.6 mi, 025° NE
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.9 mi, 111° E · 24k acres
Wassermann Lake Boat Landing (State Recreation Area) — 7.0 mi, 046° NE
Open Space (Local Conservation Area) — 7.1 mi, 043° NE
Carver County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 7.8 mi, 271° W
Minnesota Valley (State Recreation Area) — 7.8 mi, 154° SE
Inyan Ceyaka Atonwan site (Historic Ruins) — 8.4 mi, 113° SE
Jab's Farm (Historic Ruins) — 8.4 mi, 110° E
Crosby Rock (Monument) — 8.7 mi, 033° NE
Veterans Star (Monument) — 8.7 mi, 083° E
Life in a Cattail Marsh (Viewpoint) — 8.9 mi, 033° NE
Queen's Gate (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 102° E
Cartwheel Cove (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 103° E
Narrow Market (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 102° E
Treetop Round (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 102° E
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 9.2 mi, 170° S
Prairie Garden;Disc Spiral (Public Artwork) — 9.5 mi, 053° NE
Sibley County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 10.8 mi, 227° SW
Chanhassen Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 11.1 mi, 058° NE
Memorial Helicopter (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 176° S
Re-Claim Studios (Arts Centre) — 13.0 mi, 083° E
Water Street Gallery Ltd (Gallery) — 13.7 mi, 050° NE
Excelsior Dock Cinema (Cinema) — 13.8 mi, 050° NE
Wings of the North Air Museum (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 076° E
Gopher State Railway Museum (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 144° SE
Marcus Southbridge Crossing Cinema (Theatre) — 18.2 mi, 090° E
Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 43.7 mi, 006° N · 61k acres

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