Explore Grey Eagle, 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 Grey Eagle, 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 Grey Eagle.
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 | Grey Eagle |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Todd County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 45.825243 |
| Longitude | -94.746683 |
| Population | 330 |
| Density | 357.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 56336 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| County Seat | Long Prairie |
| School District | Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School District |
Grey Eagle sits anchored upon a quiet reach of the Minnesota interior, where the glacial drift has left a landscape of low-slung till and persistent woodland. It lies 29.6 miles west-northwest of Sartell, MN (from Sartell, MN: bearing 299°T), and is situated 11.6 miles east-northeast of Sauk Centre. Bass Lake provides a shimmering, glass-like center to the local topography, its edges softening into the dense, tangled thickets of the Ostendorff State Wildlife Management Area just a short walk away. The air here carries the scent of damp loam and pine needles, a heavy, cold clarity that lingers even when the sun breaks through the overcast sky to gild the tall grasses. While the distant, ancient silhouette of the Ripley Esker marks the horizon, the immediate earth is defined by the steady, unassuming presence of Prairie Creek as it winds through the fields.
Grey Eagle maintains a deliberate pace, rooted in the agrarian cycles that have long dictated the rhythm of life in this corner of the state. The local economy persists through the quiet industry of the fields and the small-scale commerce that services the surrounding farms, a legacy of the settlers who first cleared these timbered tracts. Time seems to gather in the quiet corners of the main thoroughfares, where the heritage of those who broke this soil remains visible in the sturdy, unadorned architecture of the village. The winter months bring a profound, ringing silence to the landscape, turning the world into a study of stark lines and muted colors, where the only movement is the slow drift of snow across the frozen surface of Bass Lake.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Grey Eagle, Minnesota. Coordinates: 45.825243, -94.746683. 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 Grey Eagle includes the ZIP code (56336), telephone area code (320), county seat of Todd County (Long Prairie), and school district assignment (Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 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. |