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Winsted Minnesota Map

Explore Winsted, 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 Winsted, Minnesota

How to Use This Winsted, Minnesota Map

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

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	Winsted
State	Minnesota (MN)
County	McLeod County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	44.963852
Longitude	-94.047472
Population	2,240
Density	457.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	55395
Area Code	612, 952
County Seat	Glencoe
School District	Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted

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About Winsted, Minnesota

Winsted is a locality in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,240. The population density is 457.1 people per km². Winsted is located at 44.9639°N, 94.0475°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Winsted is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 55395.

Winsted occupies a flat expanse of the Minnesota interior where the horizon pulls the sky low over the black, fertile earth. It lies 15.0 miles west-northwest of Waconia, MN (from Waconia, MN: bearing 302°T), and is situated 9.8 miles west of Watertown. The landscape is defined by the persistent presence of Winsted Lake, whose waters catch the flat, pale light of long winter afternoons and hold the reflection of passing clouds in a stillness that feels heavy with the weight of the coming frost. Two miles to the east, the depression of the Swan Lakebed marks the ancient, low-lying drainage of the prairie, while Crane Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the soil, its banks thick with the brush and tall grasses that thrive in this inland climate. The air here holds a crisp, biting clarity, especially when the sun dips behind the distant, flattened edges of the fields and leaves the world in a wash of muted, bruised gray.

Winsted emerged from the nineteenth-century push into the agricultural interior, a settlement built upon the labor of those who turned the stubborn prairie sod into rows of corn and soy. The local economy remains anchored to this cycle of planting and harvest, a rhythm that dictates the pace of life far more than the clocks on the brick facades of the main thoroughfares. Five miles away, the Clouster Lake State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary for the migratory birds and white-tailed deer that move through the thickets, a reminder of the wilder, unplowed state of the land. Life in Winsted follows a quiet, deliberate course, where the legacy of hard winters and the steady hum of machinery define the daily character of the people who persist in this quiet corner of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Clouster Lake State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 222° SW
Grass Lake State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.4 mi, 323° NW
Wright County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 6.3 mi, 326° NW
Wright County Waterfowl Production Area Of Mn (Resource Management Area) — 6.3 mi, 326° NW
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 9.6 mi, 092° E
Rieder Homestead (Theatre) — 13.5 mi, 066° NE
Glencoe Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 14.1 mi, 197° S
Glencoe Fort (Monument) — 14.2 mi, 203° SW
All Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 14.6 mi, 230° SW
Dassel History Center and Ergot Museum (Museum) — 15.3 mi, 304° NW
Depot Museum (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 302° NW
Apple Jack Orchard (Attraction) — 15.7 mi, 053° NE
Just Add You Butterfly Mural (Public Artwork) — 16.5 mi, 253° W
State Theatre (Cinema) — 16.5 mi, 253° W
Wheel and Cog (Museum) — 17.3 mi, 250° W
Life in a Cattail Marsh (Viewpoint) — 18.6 mi, 107° E
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 19.1 mi, 182° S
World's Largest Ball of Twine Made By One Man (Attraction) — 19.9 mi, 297° NW
Greenleaf Lake (State Recreation Area) — 20.2 mi, 279° W
Minnesota Pioneer Park (Attraction) — 20.4 mi, 351° N
Arboretum Apple House (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 108° E
Chanhassen Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 23.6 mi, 107° E
Lake Maria State Park (State Park) — 23.9 mi, 010° N
Water Street Gallery Ltd (Gallery) — 23.9 mi, 100° E
Excelsior Dock Cinema (Cinema) — 23.9 mi, 100° E
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.8 mi, 128° SE · 24k acres
Meeker County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 26.0 mi, 296° NW
Minnesota Valley (State Recreation Area) — 26.6 mi, 163° S
Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.3 mi, 023° NE · 61k acres
Fort Snelling State Park (State Park) — 41.1 mi, 103° E

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