Belfield North Dakota Map

About Belfield, North Dakota

Belfield is a locality in Stark County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 996. The population density is 236.8 people per km². Belfield is located at 46.8853°N, 103.1996°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Belfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58622.

Belfield greets the horizon with a vast, unyielding openness where the Heart River carves a quiet, persistent path through the earth. It lies 19.4 miles west of Dickinson, ND (from Dickinson, ND: bearing 271°T), and is situated 89.3 miles south-southeast of Williston. The land here possesses a stark, tectonic honesty, shifting from the flattened expanse of the prairie toward the rugged, eroded silhouettes of the western badlands. To the west, the Little Missouri National Grassland offers a sprawling, untamed periphery, while the distant, serrated line of Rocky Ridge anchors the western sky under a weight of pale, atmospheric blue. Light in this corner of the world does not merely shine; it settles across the terrain, sharpening the edges of every fence line and dormant grass stalk until the transition from day to dusk feels like a slow, deliberate folding of the landscape.

Belfield remains a junction of endurance, shaped by the steady rhythms of agricultural tradition and the intermittent, intense pulse of the modern energy economy. While the quietude of Cedar Canyon lies just a short distance away, the local character is defined by a resilience forged in the shadow of the Bakken oil patch and the persistence of family-run operations. History here is kept in the weathered grain of wooden structures and the enduring pragmatism of those who have navigated the cycles of boom and harvest for generations. Life moves with a measured, intentional cadence, anchored by proximity to the quiet waters of Edward Arthur Patterson Lake and the expansive, silent beauty of the surrounding plains, where the sky claims more space than the earth itself.

About This Belfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Belfield, North Dakota. Coordinates: 46.885291, -103.199622. 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 Belfield includes the ZIP code (58622), telephone area code (701), county seat of Stark County (Dickinson), and school district assignment (Belfield Public School District 13).

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.