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Kinney Minnesota Map

Explore Kinney, 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 Kinney, Minnesota

How to Use This Kinney, Minnesota Map

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

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	Kinney
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	St. Louis County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	47.514095
Longitude	-92.730737
Population	152
Density	15.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	55758, 55768
Area Code	218
County Seat	Duluth
School District	Mountain Iron-Buhl School District

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About Kinney, Minnesota

Kinney is a locality in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 152. The population density is 15.0 people per km². Kinney is located at 47.5141°N, 92.7307°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Kinney is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 55758, 55768.

Kinney emerges from the northern landscape as a quiet assertion of human presence against the vast, rugged expanse of the Iron Range. It lies 11.4 miles east-northeast of Hibbing, MN (from Hibbing, MN: bearing 58°T), and is situated 9.1 miles west of Virginia. The ground here is shaped by the ancient, stubborn geology of the Laurentian Divide, which rises like a dark, serrated spine eight miles to the north and dictates the slow drainage of the surrounding woodland. Kinney Lake sits at the center of the local geography, its surface often catching the bruised, violet light of late autumn afternoons, while the surrounding terrain remains marked by the low, scrubby growth of the North Woods. Three miles away, Timber Creek winds through the underbrush, its waters moving with a deliberate, cold persistence that mirrors the stoic character of the land itself. The air in Kinney holds a distinct, metallic sharpness, a reminder of the deep winters that define the rhythm of the year and turn the earth into a solid, unyielding floor.

Economic life in Kinney has long been tethered to the extraction of the earth’s mineral wealth, a history that colors the local perspective on labor and endurance. The legacy of Scandinavian and Ojibwe settlement remains visible in the quiet, pragmatic architecture and the unadorned way people navigate the local Miscellaneous SRMA, a space that offers a rare, reclaimed stillness amidst the remnants of industrial activity. Life in Kinney moves with the steady, predictable pace of a place that has seen the boom and quietude of mining cycles, leaving behind a community that values the solidity of the ground beneath its feet. Nineteen miles away, the Floodwood Memorial Forest provides a dense, green counterpoint to the open, excavated reaches of the range, serving as a reminder of the wild resilience that persists whenever human industry pauses. Everything about the local atmosphere suggests a place that does not seek attention, but rather exists as a necessary, functional anchor in the interior of the continent.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 0.1 mi, 001° N
Superior National Forest (National Forest) — 2.1 mi, 346° N · 2.1M acres
Kenross Creek State Aquatic Management Area (St. Louis) (State Conservation Area) — 2.4 mi, 118° SE
Great Scott State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 200° S
West Two Rivers Park (Local Park) — 3.8 mi, 125° SE
Baldwin 1910 steam locomotive 806 (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 075° E
South Grove Recreation Complex (Local Recreation) — 5.5 mi, 094° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.6 mi, 257° W
Minnesota Museum of Mining (Museum) — 7.7 mi, 257° W
Ironman (Monument) — 8.0 mi, 254° W
Mesabi Trail Arch (Public Artwork) — 8.2 mi, 082° E
Virginia Heritage Museum (Museum) — 8.6 mi, 083° E
Bebsy Pepelnjack Memorial (Monument) — 9.0 mi, 091° E
Oldtown-Finntown Overlook (Viewpoint) — 9.4 mi, 085° E
First House (Monument) — 9.4 mi, 109° E
Iron Range Off-Highway Vehicle (State Recreation Area) — 9.8 mi, 089° E
Paulucci Space Theatre (Museum) — 10.9 mi, 235° SW
Hibbing Historical Society and Museum (Museum) — 11.3 mi, 238° SW
Sturgeon River State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 14.0 mi, 000° N
Iron Range Historical Society (Attraction) — 14.9 mi, 090° E
McCarthy Beach State Park (State Park) — 17.4 mi, 311° NW
Hanna Mining Company Train Cabose (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 244° SW
Gnome Town (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 088° E
Longyear First Diamond Drill Site (Historic Ruins) — 28.8 mi, 084° E
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 32.4 mi, 031° NE · 1.1M acres
Chippewa National Forest (National Forest) — 33.5 mi, 269° W · 660k acres
Vince Shute Wildlife Sancuary (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 42.4 mi, 343° N
Brandenburg Gallery (Gallery) — 48.4 mi, 056° NE
Ely State Theater (Cinema) — 48.5 mi, 056° NE
Ely-Winton History Museum (Museum) — 49.6 mi, 057° NE

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