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Clarkfield Minnesota Map

Explore Clarkfield, 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 Clarkfield, Minnesota

How to Use This Clarkfield, Minnesota Map

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

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	Clarkfield
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Yellow Medicine County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	44.790514
Longitude	-95.808639
Population	852
Density	305.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	56223
Area Code	320
County Seat	Granite Falls
School District	Yellow Medicine East

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About Clarkfield, Minnesota

Clarkfield is a locality in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 852. The population density is 305.7 people per km². Clarkfield is located at 44.7905°N, 95.8086°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Clarkfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56223.

Clarkfield emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Upper Midwest like a steady pulse against the vastness of the prairie. It lies 23.8 miles north of Marshall, MN (from Marshall, MN: bearing 358°T), and is situated 11.3 miles south-southwest of Montevideo. The landscape surrounding Clarkfield remains defined by the deep, fertile earth of the plains, where the sky claims more territory than the land itself and shifts through a spectrum of bruised purples and pale golds as dusk settles over the fields. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Antelope Hills suggests a rugged edge to the world, while the proximity of the Stoney Run State Wildlife Management Area offers a quiet sanctuary of prairie grasses and native brush. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the water of Spring Creek moves with a slow, deliberate gravity, carving its path through the soil and anchoring the local ecosystem in a rhythm that ignores the frantic pace of distant centers.

Agricultural cycles dictate the heartbeat of Clarkfield, as the seasons dictate the labor of the hands that work the surrounding soil. The economic life of the region remains tethered to the bounty of the harvest, a tradition that honors the endurance of those who first broke this sod and built their lives upon the resilience of the plains. While the winters can be long and unforgiving, the people find a steady comfort in the persistence of their routines and the reliable clarity of the air. Those who seek a moment of stillness often travel toward the quiet surface of Spellman Lake, where the water mirrors the clouds with a glass-like precision. Life in Clarkfield moves with a grounded, unpretentious gravity, marked by the simple, enduring connections of a place that understands the value of being exactly where it is.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Stoney Run State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 351° N
Flinks Slough State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 290° W
Boyd House (Attraction) — 6.2 mi, 312° NW
Yellow Medicine County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 7.9 mi, 171° S
Lac Qui Parle County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 9.5 mi, 290° W
Minnesota's Machinery Museum (Museum) — 11.4 mi, 126° SE
Minnesota Machinery Museum (Attraction) — 11.5 mi, 126° SE
Swensson Farm Museum (Museum) — 12.2 mi, 060° NE
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 15.9 mi, 125° SE
Lac qui Parle State Park (State Park) — 16.0 mi, 347° N
Upper Sioux Agency State Park (State Park) — 16.3 mi, 102° E
Arv Hus Museum (Museum) — 22.7 mi, 347° N
Barckes Corner (Monument) — 23.0 mi, 270° W
Civil War Statue (Public Artwork) — 23.5 mi, 178° S
Marshall 6 Theatre (Cinema) — 23.7 mi, 178° S
Canby Depot Museum (Museum) — 23.7 mi, 256° W
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.5 mi, 210° SW · 12k acres
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 28.7 mi, 154° SE
Our Lady of Victory (Monument) — 30.7 mi, 147° SE
Swift County Historical Museum (Museum) — 37.1 mi, 015° N
Swaybacked Bridge (Attraction) — 37.5 mi, 116° SE
Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.7 mi, 322° NW · 23k acres
The Stone Station (Attraction) — 39.3 mi, 166° S
Laura Ingalls' Dugout Home on Plum Creek (Historic Ruins) — 41.1 mi, 155° SE
Golden Ticket Kandi 6 (Cinema) — 43.4 mi, 060° NE
Ordway Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 52.7 mi, 031° NE
Lake Johanna Esker Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 52.9 mi, 034° NE

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