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Hayfield Minnesota Map

Explore Hayfield, 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 Hayfield, Minnesota

How to Use This Hayfield, Minnesota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hayfield, 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 Hayfield.

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	Hayfield
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Dodge County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	43.890519
Longitude	-92.84769
Population	1,364
Density	418.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	55940
Area Code	218
County Seat	Mantorville
School District	Hayfield Public School District

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About Hayfield, Minnesota

Hayfield is a locality in Dodge County, Minnesota, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,364. The population density is 418.0 people per km². Hayfield is located at 43.8905°N, 92.8477°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hayfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55940.

Hayfield emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the upper Midwest as a quiet intersection of sky and soil, where the earth stretches in long, rhythmic furrows of dark, fertile loam. It lies 16.7 miles north-northeast of Austin, MN (from Austin, MN: bearing 22°T), and is situated 9.5 miles south of Dodge Center. The landscape here is defined by an absolute openness, a vast prairie floor where the light at dusk bleeds a bruised violet across the grain fields, casting long, thin shadows that reach toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Table Rock. Only two miles to the west, the Cedar River carves a sluggish, meandering path through the terrain, its banks lined with dense thickets that shiver in the biting wind. Just a mile away, the Iron Horse Prairie State Scientific and Natural Area preserves a rare, unplowed remnant of the native tallgrass, a fragile island of biodiversity that turns a deep, scorched bronze when the frost settles over the plains.

Hayfield carries the weight of a settlement forged by the necessity of the harvest and the iron rails that once dictated the pulse of rural commerce. The economy remains tethered to the cycles of the earth, as the community aligns its daily patterns with the heavy equipment moving through town and the changing hues of the crops. While Oak Glen Lake sits twelve miles distant, serving as a quiet point of retreat, the life of the inhabitants is more directly governed by the temperament of the long, deep winters that silence the fields and force the town to turn inward. There is a distinct, pragmatic beauty in the way the grain elevators stand as sentinels against the sky, their stark geometry a reminder of a history built upon the labor of those who broke the sod and transformed the wilderness into a grid of persistent, productive endurance.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Welcome to Hayfield (Monument) — 0.6 mi, 286° W
Iron Horse Prairie State Scientific and Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.9 mi, 185° S
Bud Jensen State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 018° N
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 10.3 mi, 026° NE
Steele County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 11.8 mi, 299° NW
Byron Bear (Public Artwork) — 14.9 mi, 041° NE
Rice Lake State Park (State Park) — 16.3 mi, 324° NW
Summerset Theater (Theatre) — 16.5 mi, 206° SW
Dr Paul E Zollman Memorial (Monument) — 16.6 mi, 036° NE
Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 16.6 mi, 037° NE
Rydjor Bike Museum (Museum) — 16.6 mi, 202° S
Bear Cave Park Meadow (Viewpoint) — 17.2 mi, 098° E
Mower County Historical Society Exhibits (Museum) — 17.4 mi, 204° SW
History Center of Olmsted County (Museum) — 18.6 mi, 064° NE
Driftless Art Academy (Arts Centre) — 19.7 mi, 066° NE
Spark (Museum) — 20.0 mi, 067° NE
Plummer House (Museum) — 20.1 mi, 066° NE
Soldiers Field Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 20.8 mi, 065° NE
Threshold Arts (Gallery) — 21.1 mi, 065° NE
Rochester Civic Theatre (Theatre) — 21.4 mi, 065° NE
Taylor Arena (Stadium) — 21.4 mi, 065° NE
Historic Structure (Historic Ruins) — 22.7 mi, 065° NE
Quarry Hill Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 22.7 mi, 065° NE
Myre-Big Island State Park (State Park) — 27.0 mi, 234° SW
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife And Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 52.2 mi, 046° NE · 274k acres

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