To get aerial photos of land in Minnesota, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. DirtFlight renders the pack in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. No pilot is dispatched, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in Minnesota. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of Minnesota
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
The line between land and water moves.
Minnesota land is still sold by the forty, and half of what a buyer wants to know is where the water sits. Wetland edge, seasonal pond, tamarack low ground, the difference between lake frontage and a channel through a neighbor. A listing photo taken from the road answers none of it.
A forty in Aitkin County comes back in the same ten minutes as a lot in Dakota County, in any month of the year.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel, everything below. Aspen and pine, low ground on the north line, and a township road along the front.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Minnesota delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Minnesota land actually trades.
These are the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Minnesota county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order a Minnesota parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Minnesota county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Northern forest and lake country, farmland in the south and west, wooded recreational land, and hobby farms around the metro areas.
- Typical uses
- Recreational and hunting land, cabin and lake sites, farms, and hobby farms.
- Reads well from above
- Wetlands and low ground, lakes and rivers on or near the boundary, timber against open fields, and field patterns on the farm side of the state.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the parcel ID or PIN on the tax record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting a Minnesota tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling Minnesota ground.
Which Minnesota counties can you do?
Any Minnesota county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
What kinds of Minnesota land does DirtFlight cover well?
Northern forest and lake country, farmland in the south and west, wooded recreational land, and hobby farms around the metro areas. Typical uses there: recreational and hunting land, cabin and lake sites, farms, and hobby farms.
Will wetland and low ground show up on the imagery?
They do. Standing water, wetland edge, tamarack and the dark ground that stays wet all read clearly from above, and the contour map in Paydirt shows which way it drains. On Minnesota land that is usually the first question a buyer asks.
Can you show lake or river frontage on the boundary?
Yes. The boundary is drawn straight onto the imagery, so where your line meets the shore is visible rather than described. Adjoining forties entered together merge into one outline.
What do I look for on a Minnesota tax statement, the parcel ID or the PIN?
In Minnesota, the number to look for is the parcel ID or PIN on the tax record. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What shows from above on Minnesota woods, lakes and fields?
Wetlands and low ground, lakes and rivers on or near the boundary, timber against open fields, and field patterns on the farm side of the state. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your Minnesota parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.