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Walnut Grove Minnesota Map

Explore Walnut Grove, 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 Walnut Grove, Minnesota

How to Use This Walnut Grove, Minnesota Map

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

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	Walnut Grove
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	Redwood County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	44.223012
Longitude	-95.469449
Population	751
Density	265.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	56180
Area Code	320
County Seat	Redwood Falls
School District	Westbrook-Walnut Grove Schools

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About Walnut Grove, Minnesota

Walnut Grove is a locality in Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 751. The population density is 265.8 people per km². Walnut Grove is located at 44.2230°N, 95.4694°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Walnut Grove is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 56180.

Walnut Grove claims the vast, open horizon of the southwestern Minnesota prairie, where the sky exerts a heavy, luminous pressure upon the earth. It lies 22.1 miles southeast of Marshall, MN (from Marshall, MN: bearing 134°T), and is situated 7.4 miles east of Tracy. The land here is defined by the subtle, persistent erosion of the plains, where the modest flow of Plum Creek carves a quiet path through the soil just a mile from the center of Walnut Grove. To the west, the distant rise of Buffalo Ridge anchors the view, a faint, blurred line against the clouds, while the nearby Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge preserves the original, unplowed character of the grasses that once swayed across this entire expanse. In the late autumn, the light turns a thin, brittle gold, illuminating the dried stalks of the fields and the deep, silent expanse of the Sigel Lakebed, which lies waiting for the spring thaw to reclaim its hollows.

Agriculture remains the pulse of the local economy, with the rhythm of the seasons dictating the movement of machines and the quiet labor of the people who work the heavy, black loam. This landscape carries the echoes of early homesteading, a history defined by the struggle to tame a wild, wind-swept geography that demanded resilience from those who arrived to break the sod. Beyond the immediate fields, the presence of Robbins Slough reminds the traveler of the region’s glacial, uneven foundation, a quiet basin where the water reflects the shifting moods of the continental climate. Life in Walnut Grove proceeds with an understated gravity, shaped by the memory of harsh, legendary winters and the enduring, productive silence of the surrounding plains, where the primary harvest serves as both a livelihood and a deep, ancestral connection to the land itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Laura Ingalls' Dugout Home on Plum Creek (Historic Ruins) — 1.8 mi, 009° N
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 2.9 mi, 174° S · 12k acres
Two Rivers State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.1 mi, 050° NE
Wahpeton Prairie State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.7 mi, 009° N
The Stone Station (Attraction) — 7.2 mi, 279° W
Tracy Tornado Memorial (Monument) — 7.5 mi, 278° W
Wheels Across the Prairie Heritage Center (Museum) — 8.3 mi, 277° W
Murray County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 10.5 mi, 206° SW
Cottonwood County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 10.9 mi, 176° S
Westbrook Heritage House Museum (Museum) — 12.8 mi, 172° S
Lake Shetek State Park (State Park) — 12.8 mi, 232° SW
Our Lady of Victory (Monument) — 13.3 mi, 359° N
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 14.0 mi, 343° N
The Mustang Statue (Public Artwork) — 21.2 mi, 318° NW
Marshall 6 Theatre (Cinema) — 22.1 mi, 315° NW
Buffalo Rub (Historic Ruins) — 22.2 mi, 114° SE
Camden State Park (State Park) — 23.4 mi, 289° W
Lyon County Waterfowl Production Area 3 (National Conservation Area) — 24.2 mi, 282° W · 235 acres
Swaybacked Bridge (Attraction) — 28.3 mi, 037° NE
Renville County Historical Museum (Museum) — 33.2 mi, 046° NE
Minnesota Machinery Museum (Attraction) — 33.2 mi, 347° N
Minnesota's Machinery Museum (Museum) — 33.3 mi, 347° N
Heritage Village Museum (Museum) — 33.8 mi, 126° SE
Des Moines River SNA (Nature Reserve) — 35.0 mi, 146° SE
Elevated Lake Viewing Platform (Viewpoint) — 37.1 mi, 081° E
Fort Ridgely (Historic Castle / Fort) — 39.7 mi, 066° NE
Pipestone National Monument (National Monument) — 44.4 mi, 252° W · 302 acres

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