Explore Two Harbors, 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 Two Harbors, 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 Two Harbors.
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 | Two Harbors |
| State | Minnesota (MN) |
| County | Lake County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 47.022711 |
| Longitude | -91.670732 |
| Population | 3,633 |
| Density | 428.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 55616 |
| Area Code | 218 |
| County Seat | Two Harbors |
| School District | Lake Superior Public School District |
Two Harbors emerges from the thick, dark timber of the North Woods where the landscape rises in sudden, jagged indifference to the flat plains elsewhere. It lies 26.4 miles northeast of Duluth, MN (from Duluth, MN: bearing 51°T), and is situated 29.2 miles northeast of Superior. Skunk Creek carves a narrow, persistent path through the undergrowth, its waters often running the color of steeped tea as they push toward the vast, cold expanse of Lake Superior. To the north, the ground swells toward the silent, rocky prominence of Pork City Hill, which anchors the horizon under a sky that shifts from bruised violet to a stark, blinding gray. Here, the air carries a crisp, metallic edge, a reminder of the long, deep winters that pull the frost out of the earth and turn the morning breath into plumes of silver mist.
Thomas Owens Park serves as a quiet threshold where the modern rhythm of Two Harbors meets the enduring weight of its industrial lineage. The economy of Two Harbors has long been tethered to the extraction of iron, a heritage visible in the heavy, weathered machinery and the iron-red dust that seems to settle into the very pores of the local brickwork. This is a place shaped by the persistent, sturdy labor of those who arrived with Scandinavian roots, building their lives in the shadow of the great ore docks that define the skyline. Life moves with the deliberate pace of a season, where the turning of the leaves signals a collective preparation for the frozen silence to follow, leaving the residents to find comfort in the warmth of wood stoves and the steady, quiet endurance of their neighbors.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Two Harbors, Minnesota. Coordinates: 47.022711, -91.670732. 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 Two Harbors includes the ZIP code (55616), telephone area code (218), county seat of Lake County (Two Harbors), and school district assignment (Lake Superior 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. |