Ambrose North Dakota Map
Explore Ambrose, North Dakota, 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 Ambrose, North Dakota
How to Use This Ambrose, North Dakota Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ambrose, North Dakota. 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 North Dakota 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 Ambrose.
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 | Ambrose |
| State | North Dakota (ND) |
| County | Divide County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 48.953922 |
| Longitude | -103.482692 |
| Population | 24 |
| Density | 9.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 58833 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| County Seat | Crosby |
| School District | Divide County Public School District 1 |
About Ambrose, North Dakota
Ambrose is a locality in Divide County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 24. The population density is 9.2 people per km². Ambrose is located at 48.9539°N, 103.4827°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ambrose is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58833.Ambrose occupies a stark, expansive reach of the northern plains where the horizon exerts a gravitational pull on the spirit. It lies 56.1 miles north of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 6°T), and is situated 90.9 miles north-northeast of Sidney. The land around Ambrose consists of vast, open prairie that stretches until the sky seems to press against the tall grasses, a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of the wind and the absence of high relief. Five miles away, Long Creek carves a thin, seasonal ribbon through the soil, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Smoky Butte marks the far edge of the traveler’s view. During the golden hour, the light here flattens and deepens, turning the endless fields into a burnished copper plate that reveals the true, unadorned scale of the earth.
Ambrose carries the weight of a frontier history rooted in the era of rail expansion and the hopeful, arduous labor of homesteading. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of agriculture and the underlying pulse of the energy sector, which continues to shape the character of the region. Residents often look toward the Divide County Waterfowl Production Area to witness the seasonal migrations that bring a sudden, frantic vitality to the otherwise still plains. Life in Ambrose moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has learned to endure the long, gray winters, finding a modest, resilient beauty in the simple act of maintaining a home under such an enormous and indifferent sky.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Divide County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 5.8 mi, 093° E
- Blue Ridge (State Conservation Area) — 21.8 mi, 188° S
- Harris M. Baukol (State Conservation Area) — 22.8 mi, 103° E
- Williams County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 23.4 mi, 195° S
- Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 25.7 mi, 269° W
- Lake Zahl National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.0 mi, 194° S · 6,424 acres
- Brush Lake State Park (State Park) — 37.0 mi, 230° SW
- Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 41.5 mi, 230° SW · 63k acres
- Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 48.9 mi, 113° SE · 5,522 acres
- Sheridan County Agriculture Museum and Civic Center (Museum) — 49.6 mi, 256° W
- Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 51.3 mi, 229° SW · 12k acres
- Sloulin Field International Airport (historic) (Historic Ruins) — 54.2 mi, 188° S
- Gn 3059 (Attraction) — 56.4 mi, 186° S
- Lewis And Clark State Park (State Park) — 57.8 mi, 169° S
- Little Missouri National Grassland (National Grassland) — 60.1 mi, 162° S · 1.0M acres
- Culbertson Museum (Museum) — 72.3 mi, 220° SW
- Lewis and Clark Trail Museum (Museum) — 76.9 mi, 185° S
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About This Ambrose Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ambrose, North Dakota. Coordinates: 48.953922, -103.482692. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Ambrose includes the ZIP code (58833), telephone area code (701), county seat of Divide County (Crosby), and school district assignment (Divide County Public School District 1).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
