To get aerial photos of a Minnesota parcel, enter the county and the APN. Dirt Flight draws the boundary from county parcel data and renders the pack in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video and a contour map. No pilot is dispatched, so there is no travel charge, and all 87 counties render.
- Coverage
- Statewide, from county records
- 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.
All 87 counties publish parcel geometry, and the state compiles it into one dataset, which is what the boundary is drawn from. That is why 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, from public parcel data, and are not a survey.
One APN. Everything below.
One parcel, one APN, 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 number, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Minnesota land actually trades.
These are the ones land buyers ask for most, each with its own page.
Do not see your county? Every one of the 87 renders. Send the APN and it comes back the same ten minutes.
Asked by people selling Minnesota ground.
Which Minnesota counties can you do?
Send the county and the APN and we go straight to that county's own parcel records. Coverage varies: some states publish one statewide layer, others leave it county by county. If yours is one where the records are not public, you hear it from us before anything is charged.
How much does a drone photographer cost for a rural Minnesota listing?
Up north a pilot quotes the shoot plus the drive, and the drive to a forty outside Effie can be three hours each way. Dirt Flight has no travel charge, because nobody drives. A parcel in Koochiching County costs the same as one in Washington County, and there is no waiting for the ice to go out.
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 from county parcel data straight onto the imagery, so where your line meets the shore is visible rather than described. Adjoining forties entered together merge into one outline.
How recent is the imagery on a Minnesota parcel?
Somewhere between one and three years for most Minnesota ground, dated on the pack. A cut made last winter or a new approach off the township road will not appear until the next flight. Contour data behind the elevation views refreshes separately.
What exactly comes back for a Minnesota APN?
An outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a contour map, a context map and a parcel info sheet. Paydirt adds road frontage views, infrared, a social kit and the full resolution files. Minnesota buyers read the wetland off the top down and the drainage off the contour map. Minnesota buyers read the wetland off the top down and the drainage off the contour map.
Got a Minnesota parcel under contract?
Send the county and the APN. If your invite is not open yet we will still look at the first one by hand.