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Richville Minnesota Map

Explore Richville, 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 Richville, Minnesota

How to Use This Richville, Minnesota Map

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

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	Richville
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Otter Tail County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	46.506627
Longitude	-95.6256
Population	77
Density	30.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	56576
Area Code	320
County Seat	Fergus Falls
School District	Perham-Dent Public School District

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About Richville, Minnesota

Richville is a locality in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 77. The population density is 30.2 people per km². Richville is located at 46.5066°N, 95.6256°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Richville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56576.

Richville occupies a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of the prairie transition, where the horizon stretches wide under a sky that seems to possess more depth than the earth beneath it. It lies 23.9 miles south-southeast of Detroit Lakes, MN (from Detroit Lakes, MN: bearing 154°T), and is situated 6.6 miles south-southwest of Perham. The land here is a mosaic of glacial till and fertile soil, marked by the presence of Rice Lake only a mile away, which draws a low, silver mist across the sedge grasses during the crisp hours of dawn. To the west, the Otter Tail River carves a deliberate, meandering path through the terrain, its currents moving with a steady, muted gravity that anchors the local topography. Though Black Peak rises as a distant, hazy suggestion on the far horizon nineteen miles away, the immediate surroundings remain dominated by the flat, expansive rhythm of farmland and the dense, protective thickets of the Head Lake State Wildlife Management Area.

Richville persists as a quiet intersection of agricultural heritage and the enduring labor of those who work the inland plains. The local economy remains tethered to the seasonal cycles of the fields, a rhythm that has dictated the pace of life here since the early settlers first broke the stubborn sod. History in Richville is not found in grand monuments, but in the sturdy architecture of grain elevators and the weathered wood of family farmsteads that have stood against the weight of countless winters. Life moves with an understated intentionality, punctuated by the seasonal migration of birds through the nearby wetlands and the communal gatherings that define the long, quiet months of the year. There is a particular beauty in the way the low-slanting sun catches the dust of a harvest afternoon, illuminating a place that asks for little from the world beyond its own borders.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Head Lake State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 178° S
Rice-Boedigheimer State Aquatic Management Area (Otter Tail) (State Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 065° NE
Otter Tail County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 135° SE
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 4.2 mi, 235° SW
ITOW Veterans Museum (Museum) — 6.7 mi, 018° N
Arvig Park (Local Park) — 7.0 mi, 022° N
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mn (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.9 mi, 101° E · 240 acres
Glendalough State Park (State Park) — 11.0 mi, 183° S
Continental Divide Monument (Monument) — 11.8 mi, 086° E
Cultural Center (Museum) — 11.9 mi, 086° E
Maplewood State Park (State Park) — 13.3 mi, 270° W
Finn Creek Museum (Museum) — 14.4 mi, 104° E
World's Largest Turkey (Public Artwork) — 15.5 mi, 345° N
Art of the Lakes (Gallery) — 16.1 mi, 195° S
Trowbridge Creek Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 17.0 mi, 320° NW
Hallaway's Hill (Viewpoint) — 17.4 mi, 279° W
Captain Black's Cabin (Historic Ruins) — 20.5 mi, 100° E
Height of Land (Monument) — 23.4 mi, 000° N
Detroit Lakes Sports Arena (Stadium) — 23.5 mi, 332° NW
Detroit Lakes Industrial Park (Monument) — 23.5 mi, 335° NW
Young at Art Co (Gallery) — 23.9 mi, 334° NW
Odyssey Cinemas Washington Square 7 (Cinema) — 23.9 mi, 334° NW
Broken Down Dam (Historic Ruins) — 24.1 mi, 232° SW
Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.5 mi, 358° N · 86k acres
Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 28.8 mi, 355° N · 2,148 acres
Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion (Attraction) — 33.4 mi, 300° NW
Long Lake Theater & Event Center (Theatre) — 37.0 mi, 052° NE
Brandon Auditorium (Theatre) — 37.5 mi, 178° S
Chippewa National Forest (National Forest) — 56.1 mi, 054° NE · 660k acres

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