Rice Minnesota Map
Explore Rice, 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 Rice, Minnesota
How to Use This Rice, Minnesota Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rice, 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 Rice.
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 | Rice |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Benton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 45.758617 |
| Longitude | -94.242906 |
| Population | 1,975 |
| Density | 133.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 56367 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| County Seat | Foley |
| School District | Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools |
About Rice, Minnesota
Rice is a locality in Benton County, Minnesota, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,975. The population density is 133.7 people per km². Rice is located at 45.7586°N, 94.2429°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rice is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56367.Rice emerges from the flat, open expanse of central Minnesota as a quiet collection of buildings defined by the wide, pale light of the northern plains. It lies 9.0 miles north of Sartell, MN (from Sartell, MN: bearing 356°T), and is situated 13.5 miles north-northwest of St. Cloud. Cloud. The horizon here is vast and unencumbered, allowing the sky to dominate the landscape until it meets the subtle, irregular line of the earth in a blur of muted greens and browns. Moisture gathers in the low-lying basins nearby, where the winding path of Little Rock Creek carves a slow, deliberate channel through the soil, feeding the nearby expanse of Little Rock Lake. To the distant west, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Ripley Esker provides a rare vertical anchor to a territory otherwise characterized by the steady, horizontal persistence of fields and scattered woodland.
Agricultural roots remain deep in the soil of Rice, though the rhythm of the day has shifted from the labor of the plow to the steady movement of commuters traveling toward the nearby industrial centers. The heritage of the region lingers in the stoic architecture of the older storefronts, which hold their own against the encroaching silence of the prairie. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the Michaelson Farm State Wildlife Management Area offers a preserved corridor of native brush and grasses, providing a sanctuary for the wildlife that has long navigated these plains. Life here moves with a deliberate, tempered pace, shaped by the memory of harsh winters and the brief, brilliant intensity of the growing season that colors the fields in shades of gold and amber.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Michaelson Farm State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 171° S
- Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 1.9 mi, 041° NE
- Sartell State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 057° NE
- Stearns County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 3.3 mi, 231° SW
- Pinecone Central Park (Local Park) — 8.1 mi, 176° S
- Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 9.4 mi, 016° N · 4,358 acres
- NASA Apolo Trainging Capsule (Attraction) — 13.1 mi, 173° S
- Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 13.1 mi, 175° S
- Maple Sugar Shack (Attraction) — 13.9 mi, 208° SW
- Summerland (Theme Park) — 13.9 mi, 151° SE
- Stone Gate (Historic Ruins) — 14.0 mi, 209° SW
- Minnesota Baseball Hall of Fame Museum (Museum) — 14.2 mi, 163° S
- Gnarly Bard Theater (Theatre) — 14.3 mi, 164° S
- Art Center (Arts Centre) — 14.4 mi, 211° SW
- Saint John's Pottery Studio (Attraction) — 14.4 mi, 211° SW
- Vietnam War Memorial (Monument) — 14.5 mi, 165° S
- Dennis M. Thayer (Monument) — 14.7 mi, 162° S
- Charles A. Lindbergh State Park (State Park) — 15.1 mi, 332° NW
- Charles A Weyerhaeuser Museum (Museum) — 15.3 mi, 332° NW
- Minnesota Fishing Museum (Museum) — 16.4 mi, 337° NW
- Pine Grove Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 16.7 mi, 336° NW
- Stoney Brook Farms (Attraction) — 19.6 mi, 129° SE
- Dinosaur (Public Artwork) — 22.4 mi, 152° SE
- Minnesota Military Museum (Museum) — 22.8 mi, 347° N
- Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.0 mi, 130° SE · 61k acres
- Melrose Area Museum (Museum) — 27.8 mi, 258° W
- Mille Lacs Kathio State Park (State Park) — 32.1 mi, 043° NE
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About This Rice Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rice, Minnesota. Coordinates: 45.758617, -94.242906. 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 Rice includes the ZIP code (56367), telephone area code (320), county seat of Benton County (Foley), and school district assignment (Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools).
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. |
