La Salle Minnesota Map
Explore La Salle, 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 La Salle, Minnesota
How to Use This La Salle, Minnesota Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for La Salle, 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 La Salle.
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 | La Salle |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Watonwan County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 44.070792 |
| Longitude | -94.569694 |
| Population | 79 |
| Density | 350.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 56056 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| County Seat | St. James |
| School District | St. James Public School District |
About La Salle, Minnesota
La Salle is a locality in Watonwan County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 79. The population density is 350.6 people per km². La Salle is located at 44.0708°N, 94.5697°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. La Salle is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56056.La Salle emerges from the flatness of the surrounding plains as a small collection of structures defined by the vast, open sky and the persistent sweep of the prairie wind. It lies 11.6 miles south-southeast of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 161°T), and is situated 6.7 miles north-northeast of St. James. James. The land here carries the quiet weight of ancient glacial retreat, where the soil is thick, dark, and indifferent to the passage of human labor. Only a mile away, the Watonwan River carves a deliberate, winding path through the terrain, its waters moving with a sluggish, rhythmic intensity that dictates the moisture of the lowlands. To the north, the elevation shifts subtly toward Fort Hill, a modest rise that breaks the horizon’s monotony, while the nearby Lake Hanska State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and seasonal marshland, mirroring the stillness that settles over the region whenever the sun retreats behind the western fields.
La Salle remains anchored to the rhythms of an agrarian economy that has persisted through cycles of harvest and dormancy for generations. The history of the region is written in the grain elevators that punctuate the skyline, serving as silent sentinels over a landscape where the primary industry is the cultivation of the earth itself. Life in La Salle moves in alignment with the seasonal shifts, from the intense labor of planting to the long, hollow silence of the deep winter months. Near the shores of Lake Hanska, the land reflects a heritage of endurance, where residents navigate the isolation of the plains with a stoic, practical resolve. Even the distant, arid memory of the Broom Lakebed serves as a reminder of the shifting environmental character of the region, grounding the identity of La Salle in a landscape that is both productive and profoundly solitary.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Younger Brothers State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.3 mi, 114° SE
- Southeast Hanska State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 000° N
- Meadowlark Prairie Nature Center Park (Local Park) — 5.0 mi, 204° SW
- Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 7.6 mi, 101° E
- Major General Doyle E. Larson (Public Artwork) — 7.6 mi, 101° E
- Round House Railroad Club (Museum) — 7.6 mi, 208° SW
- Watona Park Peace Pole (Monument) — 7.7 mi, 105° E
- Brown County Waterfowl Production Area Of Mn (Resource Management Area) — 8.7 mi, 006° N
- Blue Earth County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 10.5 mi, 109° E
- Flandrau State Park (State Park) — 15.3 mi, 020° N
- Former Dam Site (Viewpoint) — 16.0 mi, 021° N
- Auditorium (Theatre) — 16.9 mi, 017° N
- Martin Luther Statue (Monument) — 16.9 mi, 017° N
- Sleepy Eye Depot Museum (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 334° NW
- State Street Theater Co. (Theatre) — 17.5 mi, 017° N
- John Lind House (Attraction) — 17.5 mi, 018° N
- Minnesota Music Hall of Fame Museum (Museum) — 17.6 mi, 018° N
- Wanda Gag House (Attraction) — 17.6 mi, 017° N
- Mountain Lake Site (Historic Ruins) — 19.0 mi, 237° SW
- Heritage Village Museum (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 242° SW
- Minneopa State Park (State Park) — 21.6 mi, 067° NE
- Site 8 (Historic Ruins) — 23.9 mi, 274° W
- Fort Ridgely (Historic Castle / Fort) — 27.6 mi, 343° N
- 410 Project (Gallery) — 28.6 mi, 077° E
- Spotlight Theatres Mankato 4 (Cinema) — 28.7 mi, 077° E
- Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.8 mi, 279° W · 12k acres
- Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.9 mi, 045° NE · 24k acres
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About This La Salle Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of La Salle, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.070792, -94.569694. 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 La Salle includes the ZIP code (56056), telephone area code (320), county seat of Watonwan County (St. James), and school district assignment (St. James Public 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. |
