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Clear Lake Minnesota Map

Explore Clear 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.

Interactive Map of Clear Lake, Minnesota

How to Use This Clear Lake, Minnesota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Clear 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 Clear 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	Clear Lake
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Sherburne County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	45.444966
Longitude	-93.998871
Population	641
Density	236.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	55319
Area Code	612, 952
County Seat	Elk River
School District	St. Cloud Public School District

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About Clear Lake, Minnesota

Clear Lake is a locality in Sherburne County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 641. The population density is 236.8 people per km². Clear Lake is located at 45.4450°N, 93.9989°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Clear Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55319.

Clear Lake exists as a quiet confluence of prairie memory and the encroaching shadow of the North Woods, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that often turns the color of hammered pewter. It lies 11.3 miles southeast of St. Cloud, MN (from St. Cloud, MN: bearing 135°T), and is situated 6.9 miles west-northwest of Becker. The land here holds a distinct, sandy soil that speaks to the glacial grinding of ages past, supporting groves of oak that stand in stark silhouette against the winter gray. Only a mile away, the quiet basin of Jones Lake catches the low-angled sun, its surface a mirror for the migrating geese that punctuate the stillness of the air. To the east, the Elk River carves a deliberate path through the terrain, its banks lined with the tangled, dark brush of the local landscape, while the distant, hazy form of Blue Hill serves as the only true break in the otherwise level expanse of the horizon.

Clear Lake carries the weight of a history rooted in the grit of agricultural expansion and the slow, steady persistence of those who worked the interior plains. The economy maintains a grounded connection to the land, moving in time with the harvest and the seasonal demands of a climate that knows both the furnace of summer and the deep, biting cold of the long months. Residents often venture toward the Miscellaneous SRMA to find respite in the rugged, undeveloped pockets of earth that remain untouched by the sprawl of modern transit. Life in Clear Lake moves with the gravity of a place that values the utility of a well-oiled machine and the honest labor of the morning, finding beauty in the way the frost clings to the fence lines or the way the evening light settles over the fields long after the machinery has been put away for the night.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 1.9 mi, 116° SE
Dinosaur (Public Artwork) — 2.4 mi, 322° NW
Clear Lake State Scientific and Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.4 mi, 244° SW
Mississippi Island Stearns State Aquatic Management Area (Stearns) (State Conservation Area) — 3.9 mi, 268° W
Becker City Park (Local Park) — 5.7 mi, 108° E
Becker Athletic Complex (Local Recreation) — 7.0 mi, 116° SE
St. Cloud River Bluffs Regional Park (Local Park) — 8.0 mi, 300° NW
Lake Maria State Park (State Park) — 8.4 mi, 170° S
Nature Observation (Viewpoint) — 8.9 mi, 166° S
Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 8.9 mi, 057° NE · 61k acres
Wright County Waterfowl Production Area Of Mn (Resource Management Area) — 9.5 mi, 153° SE
Wright County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 9.5 mi, 153° SE
Stoney Brook Farms (Attraction) — 10.1 mi, 020° N
Santiago Oak Savanna (Research Natural Area) — 10.5 mi, 065° NE
Dennis M. Thayer (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 316° NW
Summerland (Theme Park) — 10.7 mi, 332° NW
Minnesota Baseball Hall of Fame Museum (Museum) — 11.1 mi, 317° NW
Vietnam War Memorial (Monument) — 11.1 mi, 314° NW
Gnarly Bard Theater (Theatre) — 11.2 mi, 315° NW
Voie de la Liberté 1944 Milestone (Monument) — 12.0 mi, 273° W
NASA Apolo Trainging Capsule (Attraction) — 13.5 mi, 310° NW
Bob Dunn Horse Camp (Nature Reserve) — 14.1 mi, 093° E
Minnesota Pioneer Park (Attraction) — 14.2 mi, 202° S
Maple Sugar Shack (Attraction) — 20.5 mi, 297° NW
Stone Gate (Historic Ruins) — 20.9 mi, 297° NW
Art Center (Arts Centre) — 21.4 mi, 296° NW
Front Porch Musical Theatre (Theatre) — 27.0 mi, 127° SE
Dassel History Center and Ergot Museum (Museum) — 29.0 mi, 211° SW
Depot Museum (Museum) — 29.5 mi, 212° SW
Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.9 mi, 344° N · 4,358 acres

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