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Big Bend City Minnesota Map

Explore Big Bend City, 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 Big Bend City, Minnesota

How to Use This Big Bend City, Minnesota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Big Bend City, 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 Big Bend City.

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	Big Bend City
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Chippewa County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	45.143015
Longitude	-95.771979
Population	180
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	56262, 56215
Area Code	320
County Seat	Montevideo

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About Big Bend City, Minnesota

Big Bend City is a locality in Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 180. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Big Bend City is located at 45.1430°N, 95.7720°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 56262, 56215.

Big Bend City occupies a quiet stretch of the Minnesota prairie where the Chippewa River traces a slow, deliberate path through the earth. It lies 35.5 miles west of Willmar, MN (from Willmar, MN: bearing 273°T), and is situated 14.1 miles north of Montevideo. The landscape here is defined by wide horizons and the deep, persistent silence of the plains, where the sky seems to hold more weight than the ground itself. In the late afternoon, the light turns a thin, pale gold, illuminating the tall grasses that lean in rhythmic unison against the wind. Eight miles away, the waters of Lac Qui Parle mirror the changing seasons, while the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Antelope Hills serve as a faint reminder of the geological theater beyond the flat expanse. Only four miles from the center, the Tjosaas State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary for the migratory birds and deer that move through the brush with an indifference to the human clocks ticking in the nearby houses.

Big Bend City bears the quiet marks of a settlement built on the strength of the soil and the necessity of the harvest. The local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the grain elevator and the seasonal demands of the surrounding farms, where families have worked the same dark, rich dirt for generations. History here is not written in monuments but in the sturdy architecture of the older buildings and the persistent Scandinavian influence that lingers in the way neighbors greet one another in the stores. The pace of life is dictated by the turning of the seasons, moving from the intense labor of summer to the long, crystalline stillness of winter when the Chippewa River freezes into a motionless ribbon of gray ice. It is a place where the work is honest and the evenings are long, leaving space for the quiet observation of a hawk circling above the fields or the first frost settling on the rusted machinery of the outer lots.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Benderberg State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.9 mi, 200° S
Lac Qui Parle Lake (Recreation Area) — 7.1 mi, 214° SW
Lac qui Parle State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.1 mi, 201° S
Arv Hus Museum (Museum) — 7.2 mi, 252° W
Chippewa County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 7.2 mi, 267° W
Swift County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 8.2 mi, 274° W
Lac qui Parle State Park (State Park) — 8.4 mi, 218° SW
Chippewa Prairie Fee (Conservation Area) — 10.4 mi, 268° W
Wildwood Park (Local Park) — 13.0 mi, 172° S
Swift County Historical Museum (Museum) — 13.8 mi, 033° NE
Swensson Farm Museum (Museum) — 20.3 mi, 154° SE
Boyd House (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 197° S
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.4 mi, 028° NE · 12k acres
Lac qui Parle County Museum (Museum) — 22.7 mi, 246° SW
Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.7 mi, 282° W · 23k acres
Yellow Medicine County Museum (Museum) — 26.4 mi, 154° SE
Glacial Lakes State Park (State Park) — 29.0 mi, 024° NE
Highest elevation in park (Viewpoint) — 30.0 mi, 026° NE
Minnesota Machinery Museum (Attraction) — 32.0 mi, 167° S
Ordway Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 32.7 mi, 050° NE
Lake Johanna Esker Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 33.8 mi, 054° NE
Paul Bunyan's Boat-Anchor (Attraction) — 33.9 mi, 289° W
Barckes Corner (Monument) — 34.7 mi, 226° SW
Golden Ticket Kandi 6 (Cinema) — 35.7 mi, 094° E
Milbank Grist Mill (Monument) — 41.6 mi, 278° W
Mill Theatres (Cinema) — 42.4 mi, 277° W
Giant Crow Statue (Public Artwork) — 42.5 mi, 060° NE
Runestone Replica (Monument) — 46.4 mi, 007° N
Swaybacked Bridge (Attraction) — 51.8 mi, 142° SE

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