Minnesota Town Map Prints

Every town in Minnesota, from the North Shore to the prairie, drawn as a map you can hang on the wall. Type yours, or find it on the map.

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Relief map of Minnesota with each town map as a dot

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Minnesota Town Maps A to Z

All 1,056 town maps, from Ada to Zumbrota. Each one opens its own page with the whole map.

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About Minnesota

Minnesota reaches from the prairie along the Dakotas to the rocky shore of Lake Superior, with forests across the north. It has more than 11,000 lakes of 10 acres or more. Its waters drain three ways: north to Hudson Bay, south to the Gulf and east through the Great Lakes. Minnesota became the 32nd state in 1858, joining land from the old Northwest Territory with land from the Louisiana Purchase.

More than half of Minnesotans live in the Twin Cities area around Minneapolis and St. Paul. Other towns grew up around fur trade posts, sawmills, iron mines and railroad stations on the prairie. The state's name comes from Mni Sota, the Dakota name for the Minnesota River, and Minnesota is home to 11 tribal nations, seven Ojibwe and four Dakota.

Statehood: May 11, 1858
Capital: Saint Paul
Population: 5,830,4052025 Census estimate
Highest point: Eagle Mountain, 2,302 feet
Lowest point: Lake Superior, 601 feet
Size: 86,936 square miles, the 12th largest state

Minneapolis and St. Paul

Minneapolis grew up around St. Anthony Falls, the only big waterfall on the Mississippi, and its flour mills led the world from 1880 to 1930. St. Paul grew from a steamboat landing and became the territorial capital in 1849. Nearby, where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi, is Bdote, a sacred place of creation to many Dakota people. Stillwater, a lumber town on the St. Croix, hosted the 1848 meeting that led to Minnesota Territory.

Duluth, the North Shore and the Range

Duluth climbs a steep hillside at the western tip of Lake Superior, and ships pass under its Aerial Lift Bridge. The North Shore runs past Split Rock Lighthouse, finished in 1910, to Grand Marais and Grand Portage, home of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Inland, the Mesabi Range towns grew after iron ore was found near Mountain Iron in 1890. Hibbing moved its downtown two miles south from 1919 to 1921 to make room for the mine.

Lake Country

Lake Country is woods and lakes from Bemidji and Park Rapids south to Brainerd, Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls and Alexandria. The Mississippi River starts as a small stream flowing out of Lake Itasca, in the state's oldest state park, set aside in 1891. Bemidji's giant Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox were built for a winter carnival in 1937. The Leech Lake, White Earth and Red Lake nations of the Ojibwe have their homelands here.

The Red River Valley

The Red River Valley is the flat bed of an ancient glacial lake, and the Red River flows north through it into Canada. Moorhead began in 1871 when the railroad reached the river, and sugar beet factories run there and in Crookston and East Grand Forks. Polaris built its first snowmobiles in Roseau in the 1950s. The Northwest Angle, on Lake of the Woods, is the northernmost point of the lower 48 states because of a faulty map used for the 1783 treaty.

St. Cloud and Central Minnesota

Central Minnesota is farm and lake country around St. Cloud, called the Granite City for quarries worked since the 1860s. Charles Lindbergh spent much of his boyhood on a farm near Little Falls, and Sauk Centre, Sinclair Lewis's hometown, became Gopher Prairie in Main Street. The monks of St. John's Abbey near Collegeville worship in a concrete church by Marcel Breuer, opened in 1961. The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe has its reservation on the shores of Mille Lacs Lake.

Rochester and Bluff Country

Southeast Minnesota is bluff country, with limestone bluffs above Red Wing and Winona and trout streams in the valleys inland. Rochester is home to the Mayo Clinic, which grew from the practice of a country doctor and his two sons. In 1922, Ralph Samuelson invented water skiing on Lake Pepin at Lake City, and Hormel first made SPAM in Austin in 1937. In Owatonna, a bank designed by Louis Sullivan in 1908 still serves customers.

Mankato and South Central Minnesota

South Central Minnesota is farm country along the Minnesota River, which flows southeast to Mankato and then turns northeast. Maud Hart Lovelace set her Betsy-Tacy books in Mankato, which she called Deep Valley. German settlers founded New Ulm in 1854, and the August Schell brewery, founded there in 1860, is still run by the Schell family. Le Sueur is where the Green Giant brand began, with a cannery built in 1903.

Southwest Minnesota and the Prairie

Southwest Minnesota is prairie farm country around Marshall, Worthington and Montevideo, rising to the windy Buffalo Ridge near South Dakota. At Pipestone National Monument, American Indians still quarry the soft red stone used for sacred pipes. In 1874, the Ingalls family made their home in a dugout on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, the setting of On the Banks of Plum Creek. At the Jeffers Petroglyphs, carvings in the red rock go back as far as 7,000 years.

Sizes and Prices

Every map comes in three sizes on archival matte paper. Framed prints come in black or white wood.

How each map is made

It starts with the real place
Streets, buildings, terrain and water form the map, drawn the way Minnesota looks today.
Then the details
Local research and an old atlas style give each town its character.
Then it's yours
Look around the map, then pick a print to keep or give.

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