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Black Hammer Minnesota Map

Explore Black Hammer, 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 Black Hammer, Minnesota

How to Use This Black Hammer, Minnesota Map

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

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	Black Hammer
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Houston County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	43.616356
Longitude	-91.660979
Population	180
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	55974, 55941
Area Code	218
County Seat	Caledonia

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About Black Hammer, Minnesota

Black Hammer is a locality in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 180. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Black Hammer is located at 43.6164°N, 91.6610°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 55974, 55941.

Black Hammer commands a landscape defined by the quiet severity of the driftless terrain, where the earth rises and falls in long, muscular swells of limestone and loess. It lies 30.0 miles south of Winona, MN (from Winona, MN: bearing 182°T), and is situated 8.3 miles west of Caledonia. Beaver Creek West carves a narrow, persistent path through the lowlands just a mile from the center, its cold waters reflecting the pale, thin light that characterizes the Minnesota autumn. Four miles to the west, the silhouettes of Irish Ridge provide a jagged, permanent horizon, casting long shadows that spill down into the depths of Rooster Valley. The air here carries a sharp, metallic clarity, especially at dusk, when the frost settles over the fields and the sky turns the color of a bruised plum, signaling the onset of the long, inevitable winter.

Black Hammer preserves the legacy of the pioneer farmers who broke the stubborn sod to establish a life built on the rhythm of the harvest and the resilience of the soil. The local economy persists as a quiet extension of this agrarian foundation, with the nearby West Beaver Creek Beaver Creek (Houston) serving as a reminder of the wilder, uncultivated edges that still press against the grid of the county roads. Residents look toward the seasonal cycles of the landscape, occasionally traveling the ten miles to R-1 Pool for the stillness that only a large, inland body of water provides. There is a profound, stoic patience in the way Black Hammer sustains itself, a place where the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the slow, deliberate turning of the seasons across the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

West Beaver Creek Beaver Creek (Houston) (State Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 090° E
R J D Memorial Hardwood State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 044° NE
Beaver Creek Valley State Park (State Park) — 3.9 mi, 064° NE
Disa Point (Viewpoint) — 4.1 mi, 061° NE
Schechs Mill (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 049° NE
So. Fork Root River State Aquatic Management Area (Fillmore) (State Conservation Area) — 6.0 mi, 300° NW
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 8.1 mi, 085° E
Steam Engine Museum (Museum) — 8.6 mi, 219° SW
International Owl Center (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 11.2 mi, 025° NE
Rushford Depot Museum (Museum) — 14.0 mi, 340° N
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 14.7 mi, 021° N
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum (Museum) — 15.0 mi, 223° SW
Lanesboro History Museum (Museum) — 17.4 mi, 295° NW
Rattler Cairn (Historic Ruins) — 17.4 mi, 090° E
Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.1 mi, 213° SW · 2,440 acres
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife And Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.1 mi, 056° NE · 274k acres
Niagara Cave (Attraction) — 21.0 mi, 250° W
Preston Veteran's Memorial (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 281° W
Dams on the Mississippi (Monument) — 21.9 mi, 099° E
La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor (Monument) — 21.9 mi, 099° E
I Am Wood (Monument) — 22.2 mi, 199° S
Jewel Theatre (Theatre) — 22.3 mi, 199° S
Kristin Wigley-Fleming Gallery (Gallery) — 22.3 mi, 199° S
Painting Studio (Arts Centre) — 22.4 mi, 199° S
Storre Theatre (Theatre) — 22.4 mi, 199° S
Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum (Museum) — 22.5 mi, 197° S
Great River Bluffs State Park (State Park) — 25.0 mi, 029° NE
Effigy Mounds National Monument (National Monument) — 41.9 mi, 149° SE · 2,460 acres

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