Explore Cass Lake, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Cass Lake, 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 Cass Lake.
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 | Cass Lake |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Cass County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 47.379398 |
| Longitude | -94.60415 |
| Population | 675 |
| Density | 239.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 56633 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| County Seat | Walker |
| School District | Cass Lake-Bena Public Schools |
Cass Lake reveals itself through a landscape defined by the quiet accumulation of glacial debris and the persistent, slow-moving presence of the North Woods. It lies 14.5 miles east-southeast of Bemidji, MN (from Bemidji, MN: bearing 117°T), and is situated 51.3 miles west-northwest of Grand Rapids. The elevation rises modestly toward the summit of Swede Hill, providing a vantage point over a terrain where the horizon is perpetually blurred by the density of pine and spruce. Water defines the character of the ground, with Fox Creek carving a meandering path through the earth to feed the larger, expansive basin of Cass Lake. Throughout the Chippewa National Forest, the air holds a permanent, sharp clarity that bites at the lungs during the long, dormant winters, while summer light lingers late into the evening, casting long, bruised-purple shadows across the needles of the forest floor.
Economic rhythms in Cass Lake have long been tethered to the timber industry and the stewardship of the land, reflecting a history deeply intertwined with the Ojibwe people and the subsequent arrival of settlers who sought a life among the pines. The legacy of the Pike Bay Experimental Forest remains a silent witness to a century of forestry science, grounding the local identity in the practical, rigorous study of growth and decay. Visitors often find their way to the Star Island Trail System, which invites a slower, more deliberate engagement with the wilderness than the paved roads allow. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, where the primary concerns are the freezing of the ice and the eventual, inevitable thaw that restores the flow of the waterways.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cass Lake, Minnesota. Coordinates: 47.379398, -94.60415. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Cass Lake includes the ZIP code (56633), telephone area code (320), county seat of Cass County (Walker), and school district assignment (Cass Lake-Bena Public Schools).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |