Medicine Lake Minnesota Map
Explore Medicine Lake, 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 Medicine Lake, Minnesota
How to Use This Medicine Lake, Minnesota Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Medicine Lake, 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 Medicine Lake.
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 | Medicine Lake |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Hennepin County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 44.995242 |
| Longitude | -93.415508 |
| Population | 337 |
| Density | 752.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 55441 |
| Area Code | 763 |
| County Seat | Minneapolis |
| School District | Wayzata Public School District |
About Medicine Lake, Minnesota
Medicine Lake is a locality in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 337. The population density is 752.1 people per km². Medicine Lake is located at 44.9952°N, 93.4155°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Medicine Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55441.Medicine Lake occupies a low-lying basin where the glacial remnants of the interior plains hold the sky in a wide, reflective embrace. It lies 2.2 miles east-southeast of Plymouth, MN (from Plymouth, MN: bearing 118°T), and is situated 7.5 miles west of Minneapolis. Bassett Creek threads through the landscape, acting as the quiet, persistent pulse that carries runoff toward the distant Mississippi, while East Medicine Lake provides a verdant threshold for those seeking the water’s edge. In the cooling light of an autumn evening, the surface of Medicine Lake turns the color of hammered lead, mirroring the long, flat shadows cast by the trees along the perimeter. The air here carries a weight of moisture and earth, a sensory signature of the inland Midwest that lingers long after the sun dips behind the distant silhouette of Sunset Hill.
Early settlers were drawn to this geography for the promise of fertile soil and the steady flow of the creek, which once powered the small-scale milling that defined the initial economy. Today, the residential character of the locality reflects a shift from those agrarian origins, though the quiet, deliberate pace of the region remains rooted in the seasonal cycles of the North. While Saint Anthony Falls roars only a short distance away, the atmosphere here remains defined by the stillness of the water and the deliberate preservation of its natural margins. Life in Medicine Lake unfolds with a steady, unadorned grace, where the legacy of the land is measured not in grand monuments, but in the enduring silence of the frost and the slow, seasonal migration of light across the open basin.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Lacompte Playfield (Local Recreation) — 0.6 mi, 190° S
- West Medicine Lake (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 291° W
- Luce Line-169 to Winnetka (Local Recreation) — 0.8 mi, 102° E
- County Road 73 (Local Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 181° S
- General Mills Research Nature Area (Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 085° E
- Westwood Park (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 171° S
- Man With A Briefcase (Public Artwork) — 1.4 mi, 143° SE
- New Hope Cinema Grill (Cinema) — 1.9 mi, 061° NE
- Open Space (Local Conservation Area) — 2.1 mi, 114° SE
- Mount Olivet Chapel (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 337° NW
- Barry Nustad (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 177° S
- Showplace ICON (Cinema) — 3.8 mi, 120° SE
- Forever Memorial (Monument) — 4.0 mi, 035° NE
- St Louis Park Historical Society (Museum) — 4.7 mi, 146° SE
- Homewood Studios (Arts Centre) — 5.1 mi, 093° E
- Minnesota African American Heritage Museum (Museum) — 5.3 mi, 093° E
- Andrew J. Foss Memorial Mud Pit (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 116° SE
- Bockley Gallery (Gallery) — 5.7 mi, 114° SE
- ARTrageous Adventures (Arts Centre) — 5.7 mi, 114° SE
- Uptown Hamel Library/Museum (Museum) — 6.2 mi, 301° NW
- Tulip House (Attraction) — 6.3 mi, 114° SE
- Phoenix Theater (Theatre) — 6.4 mi, 115° SE
- The Svitak Family Forest Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 6.5 mi, 328° NW
- American School of Storytelling (Theatre) — 6.5 mi, 108° E
- Zoma House (Gallery) — 6.6 mi, 119° SE
- Luce Line Trail (State Park) — 8.4 mi, 260° W
- Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.3 mi, 189° S · 24k acres
- Fort Snelling State Park (State Park) — 12.7 mi, 122° SE
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About This Medicine Lake Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Medicine Lake, Minnesota. Coordinates: 44.995242, -93.415508. 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 Medicine Lake includes the ZIP code (55441), telephone area code (763), county seat of Hennepin County (Minneapolis), and school district assignment (Wayzata 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. |
