Explore Lindstrom, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lindstrom, 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 Lindstrom.
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 | Lindstrom |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Chisago County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 45.389408 |
| Longitude | -92.847992 |
| Population | 4,888 |
| Density | 495.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 55045 |
| Area Code | 612, 952 |
| County Seat | Center City |
| School District | Chisago Lakes School District |
Lindstrom occupies a glacial basin defined by the steady, light-refracting presence of South Lindstrom Lake, which mirrors the expansive Minnesota sky. It lies 10.1 miles northeast of Forest Lake, MN (from Forest Lake, MN: bearing 41°T), and is situated 8.1 miles east-northeast of Wyoming. The landscape shifts from the flat, fertile ground of the surrounding plains to the sharper, wooded elevations near Wild Mountain, creating a horizon that feels both contained and vast. At the center of the local geography, Library Park offers a quiet threshold where the land meets the water, its greenspace providing a vantage point to observe how the afternoon light flattens against the surface of the lake, turning the reeds into thin, dark ink strokes. The air here carries a persistent, crisp clarity, untroubled by the salt of distant coasts, and the silence of the woods is punctuated only by the distant, rhythmic flow of the Sunrise River as it carves its way through the terrain toward the Saint Croix Dalles.
Lindstrom maintains a persistent connection to its roots, honoring a heritage of immigrant labor and resilience that defined the early settlement of these inland reaches. The local economy persists through a blend of small-scale commerce and the seasonal rhythms of a region that experiences the full, heavy weight of winter, where the landscape is often rendered in shades of monochromatic gray. Visitors and residents alike gravitate toward the cultural markers that celebrate the town’s Scandinavian lineage, which remains a living influence in the architecture and the communal pace of daily life. Even as the decades pass, Lindstrom holds to a steady, deliberate tempo, where the primary concerns remain the maintenance of the land and the preservation of a history that is felt in the architecture of the older storefronts and the quiet, enduring traditions of the people.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lindstrom, Minnesota. Coordinates: 45.389408, -92.847992. 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 Lindstrom includes the ZIP code (55045), telephone area code (612, 952), county seat of Chisago County (Center City), and school district assignment (Chisago Lakes 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. |