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Big Stone Minnesota Map

Explore Big Stone, 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 Stone, Minnesota

How to Use This Big Stone, Minnesota Map

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

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

Latitude	45.493204
Longitude	-96.4724
Population	180
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	56240, 56213
Area Code	320
County Seat	Ortonville

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About Big Stone, Minnesota

Big Stone is a locality in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 180. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Big Stone is located at 45.4932°N, 96.4724°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 56240, 56213.

Big Stone reveals itself as a vast expanse of prairie earth, where the horizon stretches flat and uncompromising under a sky that shifts from bruised violet to pale amber as the day wanes. It lies 57.8 miles south-southwest of Fergus Falls, MN (from Fergus Falls, MN: bearing 199°T), and is situated 13.1 miles north of Ortonville. The land here is defined by the subtle, glacial scars of the terrain, punctuated by the quiet persistence of the Big Stone County Waterfowl Production Area, where the tall grasses sway in rhythm with the wind. Only a mile away, the surface of South Rothwell Lake mirrors the immense, open heavens, its edges blurred by the encroaching reeds. Further out, the landscape finds a low, rhythmic pulse as the West Branch Twelvemile Creek carves a thin, dark ribbon through the soil, a silent witness to the seasonal migrations that define the local ecology.

Generations of labor have anchored the identity of Big Stone to the soil, where the rhythmic cycles of planting and harvest dictate the tempo of daily life. The economy remains tethered to this agricultural heritage, a quiet devotion to the land that echoes the stoic resilience of those who first settled these plains. Beyond the immediate fields, the depression of the Lone Tree Lakebed serves as a reminder of the shifting geology that long ago dictated the paths of early inhabitants. Even as the modern world intrudes, the spirit of the place remains fixed in the quietude of the plains, where the distance to the nearest peak—Big Tom Hill—serves only to emphasize the immense, undisturbed stillness of the surrounding horizon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Big Stone County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 0.5 mi, 002° N
Skoog State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.5 mi, 306° NW
Taffe State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.3 mi, 296° NW
Traverse County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 6.4 mi, 000° N
Big Stone Lake State Park (State Park) — 7.4 mi, 196° S
Big Stone Lake (Recreation Area) — 8.1 mi, 195° S
Big Stone Ponds Game Production Area (State Recreation Area) — 10.6 mi, 185° S
Hartford Beach (State Park) — 10.6 mi, 235° SW
Willard Andrews Lookout (Viewpoint) — 11.1 mi, 235° SW
Paul Bunyan's Boat-Anchor (Attraction) — 13.7 mi, 172° S
Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.3 mi, 175° S · 23k acres
Samuel J Brown State Monument (Monument) — 19.2 mi, 292° W
Milbank Grist Mill (Monument) — 20.0 mi, 201° S
Valley Queen Heritage Center (Museum) — 20.4 mi, 203° SW
Grant County Historical Museum (Museum) — 20.4 mi, 203° SW
Mill Theatres (Cinema) — 20.5 mi, 203° SW
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.9 mi, 101° E · 12k acres
Initial Point, North Dakota South Dakota boundary (Monument) — 30.9 mi, 352° N
Lac qui Parle County Museum (Museum) — 36.2 mi, 158° S
Arv Hus Museum (Museum) — 37.9 mi, 134° SE
Roosevelt Hall (Theatre) — 40.3 mi, 044° NE
Swift County Historical Museum (Museum) — 43.5 mi, 107° E
Sheyenne National Grassland (National Grassland) — 47.6 mi, 331° NW · 70k acres
Boyd House (Attraction) — 52.4 mi, 148° SE
Brandon Auditorium (Theatre) — 53.3 mi, 052° NE
A Point in Time (Public Artwork) — 57.8 mi, 018° N
Ordway Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 59.1 mi, 093° E
Broken Down Dam (Historic Ruins) — 59.2 mi, 021° N
Alexandria Area Arts Association (Arts Centre) — 59.4 mi, 062° NE

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