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Hills Minnesota Map

Explore Hills, 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 Hills, Minnesota

How to Use This Hills, Minnesota Map

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

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

Latitude	43.528028
Longitude	-96.358647
Population	686
Density	420.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	56138
Area Code	320
County Seat	Luverne
School District	Hills-Beaver Creek School District

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About Hills, Minnesota

Hills is a locality in Rock County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 686. The population density is 420.4 people per km². Hills is located at 43.5280°N, 96.3586°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hills is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56138.

Hills occupies a vast, level expanse of the prairie where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pulling the sky down to meet the golden grasses of the plains. It lies 38.7 miles west of Worthington, MN (from Worthington, MN: bearing 261°T), and is situated 17.2 miles east of Sioux Falls. The land here is defined by an immense, quiet openness, broken only by the thin, winding ribbon of Mud Creek, which marks the low ground just a mile away. To the north, the distant rise of The Mound provides the only significant interruption to the flat, expansive view, while the rugged, ancient rock formations of Gitchie Manitou State Preserve sit twelve miles away, offering a stark contrast to the surrounding fields. During the late autumn, the light turns a sharp, brittle yellow, illuminating the stubble of the harvested earth and casting long, thin shadows that seem to stretch for miles across the stillness of the landscape.

Hills functions as a purposeful outpost of agriculture, where the lives of the residents are synchronized with the heavy machinery of the harvest and the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons. The local economy remains tethered to the productivity of the soil, with grain elevators standing as silent, industrial sentinels against the weather-beaten gray of a winter sky. Beyond the immediate fields, the Roeman-Stettrichs Area serves as a refuge for the local wildlife, preserving a fragment of the wilder terrain that once dominated this interior region. Life in Hills maintains a steady, internal momentum, rooted in the labor of the farm and the enduring patience required to survive the deep, biting cold of the plains. It is a place where history is measured in the cycles of the crop and the quiet resilience of those who call this wide, inland territory their own.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tri-State Marker (Monument) — 5.1 mi, 248° W
Minnesota Welcomes You (Monument) — 7.6 mi, 317° NW
Boon Ranch Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 8.9 mi, 103° E
Beaver Creek Nature Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.1 mi, 280° W
Tower (Viewpoint) — 9.7 mi, 050° NE
The Buffalo (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 043° NE
Lake Pahoja Recreation Park (Local Park) — 10.7 mi, 207° SW
Historic School Museum (Museum) — 11.3 mi, 209° SW
Rock Island Depot Museum (Museum) — 11.6 mi, 124° SE
Lyon County Historical Society Museum Complex (Museum) — 11.6 mi, 124° SE
Peterson Prairie Wildlife Area (Local Conservation Area) — 11.7 mi, 233° SW
Big Sioux (State Recreation Area) — 12.2 mi, 285° W
Big Sioux River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.2 mi, 221° SW
Blood Run (State Recreation Area) — 12.3 mi, 250° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 12.3 mi, 040° NE
Blue Mounds State Park (State Park) — 13.3 mi, 033° NE
King & Queen Rock (Attraction) — 13.7 mi, 323° NW
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.0 mi, 013° N · 12k acres
Garretson Area Historical Society and Museum (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 331° NW
Inwood Iowa Museum (Museum) — 15.7 mi, 193° S
Canton Mounds (Historic Ruins) — 16.8 mi, 215° SW
Hope Stones (Public Artwork) — 17.7 mi, 271° W
JK Gallery (Gallery) — 18.2 mi, 274° W
Eastbank Art Gallery (Gallery) — 18.2 mi, 274° W
Sioux Falls State Theatre (Theatre) — 18.5 mi, 274° W
Rehfeld's Art & Framing (Gallery) — 18.5 mi, 274° W
Sioux Empire Community Theatre (Theatre) — 18.5 mi, 275° W
Dance Gallery (Arts Centre) — 18.5 mi, 274° W
Split Rock Creek State Park (State Park) — 24.2 mi, 359° N
Pipestone National Monument (National Monument) — 33.2 mi, 002° N · 302 acres

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