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Lafayette Minnesota Map

Explore Lafayette, 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 Lafayette, Minnesota

How to Use This Lafayette, Minnesota Map

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

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

Latitude	44.446631
Longitude	-94.395254
Population	492
Density	151.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	56054
Area Code	320
County Seat	St. Peter
School District	New Ulm Public School District

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About Lafayette, Minnesota

Lafayette is a locality in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 492. The population density is 151.0 people per km². Lafayette is located at 44.4466°N, 94.3953°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Lafayette is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56054.

Lafayette holds its own against the wide, unyielding expanse of the Minnesota prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and thin until it meets the bruised purple of an oncoming dusk. It lies 9.8 miles north-northeast of New Ulm, MN (from New Ulm, MN: bearing 19°T), and is situated 19.4 miles northeast of Brown. The land here is defined by a deep, glacial patience, a terrain of dark soil that yields to the slow passage of seasons and the biting, clean cold of long winters. Only three miles away, the quiet waters of Sand Lake mirror the gray sweep of the sky, while the nearby Windot State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of tall grasses and scrub where the wind moves with a restless, solitary intent. Further out, the earth dips toward the Cottonwood Lakebed, a reminder of the ancient, sunken rhythms of a landscape that has spent millennia perfecting its own quiet isolation.

Lafayette carries the weight of a history rooted in the grit of agricultural labor, where the grain elevator serves as a vertical anchor for a skyline dominated by the reach of the fields. The economy remains tethered to the pulse of the harvest, a cycle of planting and reaping that dictates the pace of life far more than the clocks on the wall. Beyond the immediate reach of the streets, the thin, winding path of Huelskamp Creek cuts through the quietude of the surrounding acreage, marking a passage through the fertile, heavy earth. People here move with a deliberate, tempered grace, honoring the heritage of those who broke this ground long ago, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Fort Hill lingers on the edge of memory, a faint sentinel watching over a life lived in the steady, rhythmic shadow of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Windot State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.3 mi, 020° N
Alfsborg State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.9 mi, 014° N
Trap Range (Local Recreation) — 8.4 mi, 209° SW
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 9.1 mi, 017° N
Art Wall Park (Public Artwork) — 9.3 mi, 201° S
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 9.5 mi, 199° S
Minnesota Music Hall of Fame Museum (Museum) — 9.8 mi, 200° S
Wanda Gag House (Attraction) — 9.8 mi, 201° S
John Lind House (Attraction) — 9.8 mi, 200° S
State Street Theater Co. (Theatre) — 9.9 mi, 200° S
Defenders Monument (Monument) — 9.9 mi, 200° S
Hermann Monument (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 202° S
Martin Luther Statue (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 201° S
Flandrau State Park (State Park) — 10.7 mi, 202° S
Overlook (Viewpoint) — 10.8 mi, 202° S
Mcleod County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 14.7 mi, 015° N
Sibley County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 14.9 mi, 029° NE
Fort Ridgely State Park (State Park) — 15.9 mi, 273° W
Sleepy Eye Depot Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 238° SW
Glueck Park (State Recreation Area) — 21.8 mi, 116° SE
Harold and Ruth Schaefer Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 22.5 mi, 112° E
Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 22.6 mi, 113° SE
Le Sueur Museum (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 087° E
Sibley County Historic Society and Museum (Museum) — 24.6 mi, 077° E
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.7 mi, 075° E · 24k acres
Minnesota Valley (State Recreation Area) — 24.7 mi, 074° E
Spotlight Theatres Mankato 4 (Cinema) — 27.4 mi, 135° SE
410 Project (Gallery) — 27.4 mi, 135° SE
Blue Earth County Heritage Center Museum (Museum) — 27.7 mi, 135° SE
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 55.9 mi, 251° W · 12k acres

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