Explore Shevlin, 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 Shevlin, 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 Shevlin.
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 | Shevlin |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Clearwater County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 47.530233 |
| Longitude | -95.258623 |
| Population | 137 |
| Density | 65.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 56676 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| County Seat | Bagley |
| School District | Bagley Public School District |
Shevlin emerges from the northern expanse as a quiet collection of structures held within a landscape of glacial till and resilient timber. It lies 18.1 miles west-northwest of Bemidji, MN (from Bemidji, MN: bearing 283°T), and is situated 56.5 miles north-northeast of Detroit Lakes. The horizon here is defined by the heavy, low-hanging sky of the interior plains, where the air holds a sharp, clean clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of the distant horizon. Only a mile away, the Little Mississippi River traces a narrow, serpentine path through the soil, its current muted by the dense surrounding vegetation. To the west, the land rises into the shadowed canopy of the White Earth State Forest, while the waters of Daniel Lake sit in a nearby depression, reflecting the shifting hues of a pale, high-latitude sun. The terrain in the immediate vicinity of Shevlin is marked by the varied topography of Miscellaneous, a Special Recreation Management Area that preserves the unadorned, rugged character of the local earth.
Economic life in Shevlin has long been tethered to the rhythms of the timber harvest and the hard-won yields of northern soil. Settlers moved into these woods with the intention of carving a livelihood from the thick stands of pine and hardwood, building a community that values self-reliance and the slow, deliberate pace of the changing seasons. The heritage of the region remains layered, reflecting the intersection of agrarian ambition and the deep, enduring presence of the Ojibwe people who walked these paths long before the arrival of the rail line. Today, the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the occasional passage of a vehicle or the wind moving through the conifers, reminding those who live here that the land dictates the tempo of human enterprise. Life in Shevlin persists as a steady, quiet continuity, grounded in the reality of deep winters and the enduring, quiet beauty of the North Woods.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Shevlin, Minnesota. Coordinates: 47.530233, -95.258623. 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 Shevlin includes the ZIP code (56676), telephone area code (320), county seat of Clearwater County (Bagley), and school district assignment (Bagley 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. |