Buxton North Dakota Map

About Buxton, North Dakota

Buxton is a locality in Traill County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 348. The population density is 402.3 people per km². Buxton is located at 47.6019°N, 97.0973°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Buxton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58218.

Buxton occupies a singular expanse of the Red River Valley, where the horizon stretches toward an infinite, pale-blue dome that seems to compress the earth into a thin, fertile ribbon. It lies 22.5 miles south of Grand Forks, ND (from Grand Forks, ND: bearing 188°T), and is situated 22.9 miles south of East Grand Forks. The landscape is defined by its unrelenting flatness, a vast geometric grid of black soil that catches the early morning light in a way that turns the stubble of harvested fields into a shimmering, metallic gold. Three miles to the west, the quiet path of Buffalo Coulee traces a subtle depression through the terrain, its banks offering a rare, slender verticality to an otherwise horizontal world. Beyond the immediate fields, the far-off rise of the Altamont Moraine marks the western limit of the view, a faint, serrated shadow against the sky that serves as a permanent reminder of the glacial forces that leveled this ground eons ago.

Buxton thrives on the quiet, methodical industry of agriculture, serving as a vital point of transit for the grain that defines the regional economy. The settlement carries the weight of a history rooted in the expansion of the rail lines, which once dictated the movement of goods and people across these plains and continue to hum with the low vibration of heavy freight. A few miles away, the Malmberg Prairie State Scientific and Natural Area preserves a rare, unplowed remnant of the tallgrass prairie, offering a glimpse of the wild, undulating grasses that dominated this space before the arrival of the plow. Life in Buxton maintains a steady, deliberate pace, dictated by the turning of the seasons and the cycle of the harvest, where the silence of the winter frost gives way to the frantic, dust-choked energy of planting, leaving the residents to navigate a world that is as expansive as it is spare.

About This Buxton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Buxton, North Dakota. Coordinates: 47.601924, -97.097308. 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 Buxton includes the ZIP code (58218), telephone area code (701), county seat of Traill County (Hillsboro), and school district assignment (Central Valley Public School District 3).

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.