U.S. National Grid Maps for Minnesota
Reference maps covering Minnesota, based on the
U.S. National Grid
system, show the location of schools, hospitals, fire and police stations,
roads and political boundaries over an air photo background.
The USNG is a standard location reference system that does not depend on landmarks or street signs. It is an efficient way to provide location information at different levels of detail and across administrative and political boundaries. The USNG is particularly useful in emergency situations.
The maps can be viewed online or downloaded and printed.
Click on
picture to the right to see a sample map.
Find a USNG Map
Map help
- Select
to change map layers
- Select
to pan map- Hold mouse button down and drag to pan across map.
- Select
to zoom in- Hold mouse button down and drag to draw zoom box or click the map to zoom to a point.
- Click
to zoom out - Select
to identify USNG
map- Click on a location to select a single USNG map or hold mouse button down and drag to draw a box to select multiple USNG maps.
- Click
to return to a full state view
Details
- Map layers:
- Fire stations, hospitals, police stations, and schools
- Interstates, state and county highways, county roads
- Boundaries of counties, cities, state parks and state
forests
- PDF format
- 10K grid: The state is divided into a grid of squares
that are 10,000 meters on a side ("10K" for short); each map covers one
of these squares. At this scale, about 2,000 maps are needed to
cover Minnesota.
- Scale and print size: The maps are fixed at a scale of
1:24,000 for a print size of 22 by 24 inches.
- GIS Data and ArcMap .mxd files: The GIS data
(structures, USNG grid, etc.) and Esri ArcMap v. 9.3.1 .mxd files used
to create these maps have been bundled as a single compressed (.zip)
file for download named "MnGeo_USNG_10K_Map_Data_Mxds.zip". Please
refer to the instructions,
"MnGeo_MSC_Create_USNG_10k_Maps_2011_04_07.pdf", which are also included
in the .zip file.
- Instructions
-
Zip file of GIS data and .mxd files
- U.S. National Grid: Much more information on the USNG system.
- Credits: The USNG maps were developed collaboratively by MnGeo and the Emergency Preparedness Committee as part of the Minnesota Structures Collaborative project. The MN USNG MapFinder tool was developed by MnGeo using OpenLayers.