Explore Clearbrook, 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 Clearbrook, 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 Clearbrook.
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 | Clearbrook |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Clearwater County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 47.691901 |
| Longitude | -95.431123 |
| Population | 464 |
| Density | 364.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 56634 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| County Seat | Bagley |
| School District | Clearbrook-Gonvick School District |
Clearbrook emerges from the expansive, level horizons of the northern plains, where the sky claims a vast, pale dominion over the earth. It lies 29.8 miles west-northwest of Bemidji, MN (from Bemidji, MN: bearing 301°T), and is situated 45.6 miles southeast of Thief River Falls. A mile to the west, Silver Creek carves a modest, serpentine path through the soil, its waters reflecting the shifting moods of a climate defined by the severity of its winters and the brief, brilliant intensity of the growing season. Three miles out, the stillness of Peterson Lake anchors the landscape, providing a quiet basin where the light catches in long, slanted ribbons during the twilight hours. The surrounding terrain, characterized by deep loam and hardy grasses, transitions toward the wilder, wooded reaches of the Little Pine Lake State Wildlife Management Area, where the air holds the sharp, clean scent of pine and damp earth even under the heat of a July sun.
Clearbrook maintains a character forged by the persistence of agricultural cycles and the heritage of those who first broke the sod to establish a foothold in this interior expanse. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the fields, where the harvest dictates the pace of the calendar and the collective focus of the residents. History here is marked not by grand monuments, but by the steady endurance of a community that has navigated the cyclical demands of the North Woods environment for generations. Life in Clearbrook proceeds with a deliberate, measured quality, favoring the quiet utility of a well-tended homestead over the frantic noise of more crowded latitudes. In the deep silence of the colder months, the land turns inward, creating a space where the frost-touched solitude feels as much like an inheritance as the fertile ground itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Clearbrook, Minnesota. Coordinates: 47.691901, -95.431123. 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 Clearbrook includes the ZIP code (56634), telephone area code (320), county seat of Clearwater County (Bagley), and school district assignment (Clearbrook-Gonvick School District).
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. |