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Brookston Minnesota Map

Explore Brookston, 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 Brookston, Minnesota

How to Use This Brookston, Minnesota Map

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

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	Brookston
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	St. Louis County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	46.86772
Longitude	-92.603804
Population	118
Density	83.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	55711
Area Code	218
County Seat	Duluth
School District	St. Louis County School District

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About Brookston, Minnesota

Brookston is a locality in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 118. The population density is 83.1 people per km². Brookston is located at 46.8677°N, 92.6038°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Brookston is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55711.

Brookston emerges from the low-slung, cedar-dark horizon of the North Woods, where the ground holds the damp memory of long, glacial retreats. It lies 12.2 miles northwest of Cloquet, MN (from Cloquet, MN: bearing 326°T), and is situated 17.8 miles west-northwest of Hermantown. The Saint Louis River carves a dark, sinuous path through the landscape, its current dragging the scent of pine needles and wet shale past the edges of the settlement. To the west, the land flattens into an expansive, marshy basin, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Elys Peak provides the only vertical interruption to a sky that often feels heavy with the coming of snow. Five miles away, the quiet waters of Andy Lake reflect the shifting, pale light of the northern sun, offering a stillness that mirrors the quietude of the surrounding thickets. The immediate environment is defined by the St. Louis State Aquatic Management Area II (St. Louis), which preserves the riparian fiber of the riverbank, ensuring the terrain remains a tangle of alder and spruce that resists the encroaching geometry of human development.

Brookston carries the quiet, industrious weight of a history built on the backbone of timber and the iron-willed expansion of the North. The local economy persists with a stoic, rhythmic independence, shaped by the legacy of the regional iron trade and the persistent, seasonal demands of the deep-woods climate. Life here moves in sync with the freezing of the river and the brief, frantic bloom of the short growing season, a cycle that has defined the character of the residents since the era of early logging camps. There is a distinct, unadorned beauty in the way the frost clings to the old metal structures that dot the periphery, remnants of an era when the pulse of the region was tied entirely to the extraction of resources. Even as the modern world brushes against its borders, Brookston maintains a stubborn, grounded identity, an existence forged in the intersection of Scandinavian endurance and the enduring, wild silence of the surrounding woodlands.

Nearby Outdoor Places

St. Louis State Aquatic Management Area II (St. Louis) (State Conservation Area) — 0.3 mi, 086° E
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 2.2 mi, 342° N
Martin Branch State Aquatic Management Area (St. Louis) (State Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 220° SW
Fond Du Lac State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 5.5 mi, 248° W
Band Shell (Theatre) — 12.2 mi, 148° SE
Superior National Forest (National Forest) — 15.3 mi, 249° W · 2.1M acres
Jay Cooke State Park (State Park) — 16.7 mi, 148° SE
Proctor Area Historical Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 116° SE
Wrenshall deer statue (Public Artwork) — 19.9 mi, 149° SE
Harvey Francis Williamson (Monument) — 20.2 mi, 096° E
Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 20.2 mi, 133° SE
St Louis River Streambank Protection Area (State Recreation Area) — 20.2 mi, 133° SE
Savanna Portage State Park (State Park) — 20.5 mi, 270° W
Ely's Peak Overlook (Viewpoint) — 20.9 mi, 127° SE
Spirit Mountain Adventure Park (Attraction) — 21.1 mi, 120° SE
Capybara (Attraction) — 21.8 mi, 116° SE
Caribou (Attraction) — 21.8 mi, 117° SE
Bald Eagle (Attraction) — 21.8 mi, 116° SE
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 23.5 mi, 234° SW
Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Monument) — 24.2 mi, 104° E
St. Louis County Historical Society (Museum) — 24.4 mi, 104° E
NorShor Theatre (Theatre) — 24.6 mi, 103° E
Hartley Nature Center (Nature Reserve) — 24.7 mi, 094° E
Siiviis Gallery (Gallery) — 24.8 mi, 104° E
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum (Museum) — 24.9 mi, 101° E
Old Pump Station (Historic Ruins) — 25.3 mi, 101° E
Phantom Galleries (Gallery) — 25.6 mi, 113° SE
Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 38.6 mi, 237° SW · 36k acres
Chippewa National Forest (National Forest) — 49.5 mi, 300° NW · 660k acres

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