Cobden Minnesota Map
Explore Cobden, 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 Cobden, Minnesota
How to Use This Cobden, Minnesota Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Cobden, 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 Cobden.
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 | Cobden |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Brown County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 44.286349 |
| Longitude | -94.848876 |
| Population | 36 |
| Density | 14.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 56085 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| County Seat | New Ulm |
| School District | Springfield Public School District |
About Cobden, Minnesota
Cobden is a locality in Brown County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 36. The population density is 14.0 people per km². Cobden is located at 44.2863°N, 94.8489°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cobden is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56085.Cobden sits amidst the vast, silent expanse of the prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that seems to press down with the weight of impending winter. It lies 10.8 miles west-northwest of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 291°T), and is situated 6.2 miles west of Sleepy Eye. Sleepy Eye Creek cuts a narrow, sluggish ribbon through the earth just a mile away, its banks marked by the skeletal reach of cottonwood trees that shiver in the relentless wind. Two miles to the east, the Bloemke Lakebed offers a hollow, seasonal basin where the light catches on damp, dark soil, while the nearby Boise Lake holds a mirror to the clouds three miles distant. The landscape is defined by this openness, a geography of long shadows and shifting gold, where the air carries the dry scent of dust and the faint, metallic tang of cold iron.
Cobden bears the quiet marks of an agricultural heritage, having grown from the necessity of rail lines and the turning of deep, black soil. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, with grain elevators standing as the singular, hulking sentinels of the skyline, watching over fields that have been worked by generations. Residents often find their way to the Boise Lake State Wildlife Management Area, where the land yields to the quiet migration of waterfowl and the slow, deliberate pulse of the changing seasons. Life in Cobden proceeds with a steady, unadorned persistence, favoring the pragmatism of those who understand that the prosperity of the region is written in the success of the crop and the endurance of the winter frost.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Boise Lake State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 211° SW
- Sleepy Eye Welcomes You (Monument) — 5.3 mi, 083° E
- Prairieview Park (Local Park) — 5.7 mi, 089° E
- Sportsmen'S Park (Local Park) — 6.0 mi, 073° E
- Elevated Lake Viewing Platform (Viewpoint) — 6.2 mi, 075° E
- Sleepy Eye Depot Museum (Museum) — 6.2 mi, 082° E
- Ish Tak Ha Ba Monument (Monument) — 6.3 mi, 082° E
- Chief Sleepy Eye Statue (Monument) — 6.3 mi, 083° E
- Verona State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.1 mi, 151° SE
- Fort Ridgely State Park (State Park) — 12.4 mi, 025° NE
- Site 8 (Historic Ruins) — 16.8 mi, 217° SW
- Site 6 (Historic Ruins) — 16.8 mi, 217° SW
- Flandrau State Park (State Park) — 18.2 mi, 089° E
- Auditorium (Theatre) — 18.7 mi, 086° E
- Wanda Gag House (Attraction) — 19.1 mi, 084° E
- State Street Theater Co. (Theatre) — 19.1 mi, 085° E
- John Lind House (Attraction) — 19.2 mi, 084° E
- Minnesota Music Hall of Fame Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 084° E
- Art Wall Park (Public Artwork) — 19.3 mi, 083° E
- Renville County Historical Museum (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 340° N
- Swaybacked Bridge (Attraction) — 22.8 mi, 323° NW
- Round House Railroad Club (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 154° SE
- Heritage Village Museum (Museum) — 24.5 mi, 188° S
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.2 mi, 257° W · 12k acres
- Des Moines River SNA (Nature Reserve) — 35.2 mi, 199° S
- Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 49.4 mi, 069° E · 24k acres
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About This Cobden Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cobden, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.286349, -94.848876. 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 Cobden includes the ZIP code (56085), telephone area code (320), county seat of Brown County (New Ulm), and school district assignment (Springfield Public 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. |
