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Houston Minnesota Map

Explore Houston, 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 Houston, Minnesota

How to Use This Houston, Minnesota Map

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

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

Latitude	43.7633
Longitude	-91.568476
Population	997
Density	312.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	55943
Area Code	218
County Seat	Caledonia
School District	Houston Public School District

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About Houston, Minnesota

Houston is a locality in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 997. The population density is 312.7 people per km². Houston is located at 43.7633°N, 91.5685°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Houston is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55943.

Houston emerges from the valley floor where the Root River carves a deliberate path through the limestone bluffs, binding the earth in a slow, winding coil of dark water. It lies 20.1 miles south of Winona, MN (from Winona, MN: bearing 170°T), and is situated 9.6 miles north-northwest of Caledonia. The landscape tightens and rises toward the limestone heights of Oak Ridge, which casts a long, cooling shadow over the valley as the sun dips low in the afternoon. Two miles distant, the Swede Bottom basin holds a quiet, damp stillness, while the Swede Bottom Creek State Aquatic Management Area (Houston) offers a sanctuary of tangled brush and thickets that seem to swallow the sound of the wind. Even the light here feels heavy and deliberate, clinging to the ridges until the gray of dusk settles across the prairie-like clearings, lending a somber, earthen weight to the horizon. Three miles away, the surface of Buell Lakes remains undisturbed, mirroring the stillness of the surrounding woods as the season turns toward the long, biting frost.

Houston maintains a steady pulse defined by the rhythm of the soil and the labor of the harvest, an economy etched into the fertile silt left behind by the patient currents of the Root River. The heritage of those who first broke this ground remains visible in the sturdy lines of early architecture and the persistent, quiet work of the local grain and livestock trade. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a season, where the arrival of the deep winter cold dictates the tempo of the day, forcing the inhabitants to draw inward toward the warmth of hearths and the shared silence of the valley. Nothing in Houston feels hurried, as the identity of the place is bound to the slow accumulation of years spent working the land beneath the looming presence of the surrounding ridges. Visitors find that the local character is not a performance, but a stubborn, honest endurance that mirrors the ancient, weathered geology of the land itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

International Owl Center (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 0.0 mi, 109° E
Swede Bottom Creek State Aquatic Management Area (Houston) (State Conservation Area) — 1.9 mi, 143° SE
Badger Creek State Aquatic Management Area (Houston) (State Conservation Area) — 1.9 mi, 160° S
R J D Memorial Hardwood State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 2.8 mi, 142° SE
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 010° N
Schechs Mill (Attraction) — 6.7 mi, 185° S
Beaver Creek Valley State Park (State Park) — 6.9 mi, 183° S
Disa Point (Viewpoint) — 8.2 mi, 187° S
Valley View (Viewpoint) — 9.1 mi, 182° S
Rushford Depot Museum (Museum) — 9.8 mi, 288° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 10.0 mi, 160° S
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife And Fish Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.2 mi, 087° E · 274k acres
Great River Bluffs State Park (State Park) — 13.9 mi, 032° NE
The Pump House Regional Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 15.9 mi, 078° E
Eagle Landmark (Public Artwork) — 16.0 mi, 077° E
Dahl Auto Museum (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 079° E
Sawblade (Public Artwork) — 16.2 mi, 066° NE
Rattler Cairn (Historic Ruins) — 16.4 mi, 129° SE
Swarthout Museum (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 078° E
Statewide Habitat Areas - Wd (State Recreation Area) — 16.6 mi, 075° E
Red Cloud Park (Monument) — 17.4 mi, 074° E
Scattered Wildlife - Wd (State Recreation Area) — 17.7 mi, 012° N
Riverside Amusement Park (Theme Park) — 17.8 mi, 068° E
Trempealeau Community Heritage Museum (Museum) — 17.9 mi, 021° N
Mississippi River Parkway: First Project (Monument) — 18.0 mi, 023° NE
Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 18.1 mi, 011° N · 14k acres
Visitor Center (Attraction) — 18.2 mi, 051° NE
Sunny the Sunfish (Monument) — 18.7 mi, 061° NE
USCGC Winona (Monument) — 19.5 mi, 349° N
Effigy Mounds National Monument (National Monument) — 49.1 mi, 160° S · 2,460 acres

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