Murray County, Minnesota Map
Explore Murray County, Minnesota with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 10 cities and towns in Murray County below.
Interactive Map of Murray County, Minnesota
| County | Murray |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County Seat | Slayton |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 43.991158 |
| Longitude | -95.742151 |
| Cities & Towns | 10 |
| Area Codes | 320 |
About Murray County, Minnesota
Murray County occupies a broad reach of the Coteau des Prairies, a high, glacial plateau that rises abruptly above the surrounding plains. The terrain here is not a flat expanse but a series of hummocks and shallow basins, where the drainage is often internal, pooling into marshes and wetlands that catch the low, slanted light of autumn afternoons. To the east and west, the landscape yields to the drainage basins of the Des Moines and Rock Rivers, which slice through the soil to reveal the ancient, hard-packed stone beneath the topsoil. The air in these parts carries a particular weight, smelling of damp earth and coming weather, sharpening as the wind sweeps unimpeded across the open fields to rattle the skeletons of cornstalks long after the harvest has concluded.
Murray County emerged during the middle of the nineteenth century, forged from the expansive territories that preceded organized statehood. Settlers arrived primarily from Northern Europe, seeking the promise of deep soil and the independence inherent in working a homestead, though their arrival was marked by the inevitable friction of territorial displacement and the harsh realities of a frontier climate. Governance found its center in a town that rose not by grand design, but through the practical necessity of a central post and a courthouse to anchor the local records. The streets of this seat were laid out with the straight-line certainty of a surveyor’s transit, a stark human geometry intended to tame the wild, erratic spread of the tallgrass prairie that once stretched to the horizon in every direction.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the region, where the work of the day is dictated by the cycle of the sun and the unpredictable temperament of the seasons. Farmers manage the heavy, dark soil with a quiet, persistent vigilance, tending to crops that turn the landscape into a vast, shimmering sea of green during the height of summer. Beyond the fields, the county is defined by wind turbines that stand like sentinels against the sky, their blades turning with a slow, hypnotic grace that defines the modern horizon. Life here possesses a grounded quality, marked by the simple, enduring habits of people who recognize that prosperity is earned in the silence between the gusts of wind, and that the beauty of the place is found in the way the gray winter sky seems to press down, intimate and vast, upon the frozen ground.
Cities and Towns in Murray County
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About This Murray County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Murray County, Minnesota alongside links to detailed street maps for 10 cities and towns. The county seat is Slayton. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
