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Silver Creek Minnesota Map

Explore Silver Creek, 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 Silver Creek, Minnesota

How to Use This Silver Creek, Minnesota Map

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

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.

CitySilver Creek
StateMinnesota (MN)
CountyWright County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude45.308206
Longitude-93.98638
Population254
Density65.8 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Codes55616, 55358
Area Code218, 612, 952
County SeatBuffalo
School DistrictAnnandale Public School District

About Silver Creek, Minnesota

Silver Creek is a locality in Wright County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 254. The population density is 65.8 people per km². Silver Creek is located at 45.3082°N, 93.9864°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 55616, 55358.

Silver Creek defines the landscape where the eponymous Silver Creek carves a persistent, winding path through the dense, loamy soil of the central plains. It lies 9.0 miles west of Monticello, MN (from Monticello, MN: bearing 274°T), and is situated 7.4 miles southwest of Becker. Silver Lake sits at the center of the terrain, its surface often mirroring the heavy, slate-colored clouds that drift across the expanse during the long transition into winter. The air here holds a crisp, biting quality that seems to sharpen the edges of the surrounding woodland, where the ground rises into subtle, glacially-smoothed ridges that stretch toward the distant horizon. In the quiet hours of dusk, the light catches the reeds at the water’s edge, turning the vegetation into a pale, translucent gold that glows against the darkening fields.

Settlers arrived in Silver Creek seeking the promise of fertile earth, establishing a modest economy rooted in the cyclical rhythms of agriculture and the careful stewardship of the land. The proximity of Lake Maria State Park preserves the integrity of the local ecosystem, offering a sanctuary of oak savanna and prairie that remains largely untouched by the slow expansion of regional industry. Life in Silver Creek moves with the steady, deliberate pace of the seasons, shaped by the heritage of those who first cleared the brush to build modest homesteads. Even now, the community maintains a quiet resilience, finding its strength in the deep, frozen silence of the winter months and the brief, frantic productivity of the harvest when the fields yield their final, dusty bounty.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Lake Maria State Park (State Park) — 0.8 mi, 056° NE
  • Viewing point (Viewpoint) — 1.7 mi, 084° E
  • Wright County Waterfowl Production Area Of Mn (Resource Management Area) — 2.0 mi, 232° SW
  • Wright County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 2.0 mi, 232° SW
  • Robert Ney Regional Park (Local Park) — 2.3 mi, 176° S
  • Hoglund State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.4 mi, 339° N
  • Suconnix State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 293° NW
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.2 mi, 243° SW
  • Minnesota Pioneer Park (Attraction) — 7.0 mi, 239° SW
  • Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 8.4 mi, 007° N
  • Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 092° E
  • Dinosaur (Public Artwork) — 11.5 mi, 350° N
  • Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.9 mi, 025° NE · 61k acres
  • Bob Dunn Horse Camp (Nature Reserve) — 16.1 mi, 057° NE
  • Voie de la Liberté 1944 Milestone (Monument) — 16.1 mi, 309° NW
  • Cascades Development Monument (Monument) — 16.8 mi, 114° SE
  • Apple Jack Orchard (Attraction) — 17.3 mi, 146° SE
  • Stoney Brook Farms (Attraction) — 19.1 mi, 009° N
  • Gnarly Bard Theater (Theatre) — 19.3 mi, 334° NW
  • Minnesota Baseball Hall of Fame Museum (Museum) — 19.3 mi, 335° NW
  • Summerland (Theme Park) — 19.8 mi, 343° N
  • Rieder Homestead (Theatre) — 20.6 mi, 153° SE
  • NASA Apolo Trainging Capsule (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 329° NW
  • Dassel History Center and Ergot Museum (Museum) — 21.9 mi, 226° SW
  • Depot Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 226° SW
  • Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (Wild & Scenic River) — 24.1 mi, 101° E · 64 acres
  • Stone Gate (Historic Ruins) — 27.0 mi, 315° NW
  • Art Center (Arts Centre) — 27.4 mi, 314° NW
  • Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 40.8 mi, 153° SE · 24k acres

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About This Silver Creek Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Silver Creek, Minnesota. Coordinates: 45.308206, -93.98638. 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 Silver Creek includes the ZIP code (55616, 55358), telephone area code (218, 612, 952), county seat of Wright County (Buffalo), and school district assignment (Annandale 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.