Explore Fisher, 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 Fisher, 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 Fisher.
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 | Fisher |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Polk County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 47.800252 |
| Longitude | -96.801462 |
| Population | 422 |
| Density | 382.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 56723 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| County Seat | Crookston |
| School District | Fisher Public School District |
Fisher occupies a vast, flat expanse of the Red River Valley where the horizon stretches toward an infinite, pale sky. It lies 13.8 miles southeast of Grand Forks, ND (from Grand Forks, ND: bearing 129°T), and is situated 9.2 miles west-northwest of Crookston. The Red Lake River carves a serpentine path through the black, fertile earth, its current often sluggish and heavy with the silt of the plains. During the long, biting winters, the wind scours the open fields, leaving the landscape a stark, monochromatic study in gray and white. When the thaw arrives, the light transforms, casting a sharp, crystalline clarity over the dormant soil that promises the return of intense agricultural labor. Five miles away, the Malmberg Prairie Fee preserves a remnant of the tallgrass wilderness that once defined this entire territory, offering a glimpse into the wild, unplowed character of the earth before the arrival of the plow.
Fisher emerged from the transformation of the prairie into a grid of productive farmland, functioning as a vital node for the export of wheat and sugar beets. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the planting and harvest seasons, dictating the quiet, deliberate pace of daily life in the streets. While the nearest surface water of any scale is the distant Grand Forks Sewage Disposal Ponds, the people of Fisher look instead to the deep, dark soil for their sustenance and identity. The legacy of Scandinavian and Ojibwe heritage persists in the stoic, industrious nature of the residents, who maintain the grain elevators as the primary cathedrals of the local skyline. Here, the passage of time is measured not by grand events, but by the subtle shifting of shadows across the endless, flat geometry of the fields.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fisher, Minnesota. Coordinates: 47.800252, -96.801462. 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 Fisher includes the ZIP code (56723), telephone area code (320), county seat of Polk County (Crookston), and school district assignment (Fisher 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. |