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Boyd Minnesota Map

Explore Boyd, 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 Boyd, Minnesota

How to Use This Boyd, Minnesota Map

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

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	Boyd
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Lac qui Parle County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	44.84857
Longitude	-95.903086
Population	141
Density	106.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	56218
Area Code	320
County Seat	Madison
School District	Dawson-Boyd Public School District

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About Boyd, Minnesota

Boyd is a locality in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 141. The population density is 106.5 people per km². Boyd is located at 44.8486°N, 95.9031°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Boyd is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56218.

Boyd emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Minnesota prairie as a quiet congregation of grain elevators and modest rooftops anchored to the earth. It lies 28.3 miles north-northwest of Marshall, MN (from Marshall, MN: bearing 349°T), and is situated 10.9 miles southwest of Montevideo. The land surrounding Boyd stretches in disciplined, rectangular swaths of corn and soy, broken only by the thin, serpentine ribbon of the Lac qui Parle River seven miles to the west. A mile away, the Church State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and seasonal marshland, where the light at dusk turns the heavy, humid air into a pale, bruised violet. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Antelope Hills suggests a ruggedness that the immediate, level fields do not possess, while the stillness of Miller Lake remains a hidden, reflective mirror nine miles to the north.

Boyd traces its endurance to the iron-willed expansion of the railroad, which once dictated the rhythm of commerce and the arrival of goods across these vast, inland plains. The local economy remains tethered to the pulse of the harvest, with the towering silos serving as the primary architecture of the skyline and the collective memory of the people. Life in Boyd moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, shaped by the heritage of those who broke the stubborn sod to claim a livelihood from the rich, black soil. Even now, the community maintains a stoic, unassuming character, finding its continuity in the cycles of planting and the deep, silent insulation of the long, frost-bound winters that define this corner of the world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Boyd House (Attraction) — 0.1 mi, 023° NE
Church State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 142° SE
Flinks Slough State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 145° SE
Lac Qui Parle County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 4.4 mi, 260° W
Lac qui Parle State Park (State Park) — 11.6 mi, 004° N
Swensson Farm Museum (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 082° E
Minnesota's Machinery Museum (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 128° SE
Minnesota Machinery Museum (Attraction) — 17.6 mi, 128° SE
Arv Hus Museum (Museum) — 18.2 mi, 359° N
Yellow Medicine County Museum (Museum) — 18.3 mi, 101° E
Barckes Corner (Monument) — 18.8 mi, 258° W
Canby Depot Museum (Museum) — 20.7 mi, 242° SW
Upper Sioux Agency State Park (State Park) — 21.9 mi, 110° E
Civil War Statue (Public Artwork) — 28.0 mi, 169° S
Marshall 6 Theatre (Cinema) — 28.2 mi, 168° S
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.3 mi, 198° S · 12k acres
Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.7 mi, 324° NW · 23k acres
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 34.4 mi, 150° SE
Our Lady of Victory (Monument) — 36.7 mi, 145° SE
Paul Bunyan's Boat-Anchor (Attraction) — 40.3 mi, 320° NW
Swaybacked Bridge (Attraction) — 43.4 mi, 118° SE
Mill Theatres (Cinema) — 44.0 mi, 306° NW
Laura Ingalls' Dugout Home on Plum Creek (Historic Ruins) — 46.7 mi, 152° SE
Highest elevation in park (Viewpoint) — 51.2 mi, 022° N
Ordway Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 51.9 mi, 037° NE

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