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Crystal North Dakota Map

Explore Crystal, 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 Crystal, North Dakota

How to Use This Crystal, North Dakota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Crystal, 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 Crystal.

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	Crystal
State	North Dakota (ND)
County	Pembina County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	48.596937
Longitude	-97.669533
Population	116
Density	65.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58222
Area Code	701
County Seat	Cavalier
School District	Valley-Edinburg Public School District 118

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About Crystal, North Dakota

Crystal is a locality in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 116. The population density is 65.1 people per km². Crystal is located at 48.5969°N, 97.6695°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Crystal is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58222.

Crystal emerges from the vast, open prairie as a quiet collection of structures defined by the persistent, low-slung presence of Cart Creek, which meanders through the landscape with a rhythmic, quiet gravity. It lies 54.9 miles north-northwest of Grand Forks, ND (from Grand Forks, ND: bearing 328°T), and is situated 17.4 miles northwest of Grafton. The horizon stretches indefinitely in every direction, an enormous sky pressing down upon the flat, fertile earth that characterizes this corner of the state. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Horgan Ridge marks the edge of the world, while the nearby basin known as The Coulee offers a subtle break in the otherwise relentless levelness of the fields. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised clarity, turning the dry grasses to shades of amber and pale copper as the sun dips behind the distant, shadowed rise of the land.

Crystal maintains its character through the industry of the soil, where the economy remains tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest that dictate the pace of every season. The legacy of the early settlers persists in the sturdy, utilitarian architecture of grain elevators and wide, straight roads that slice through the black earth like geometry rendered in dust and gravel. Residents often look toward the quiet expanse of Eyolfson, a SCA, to witness the migratory patterns of birds or the slow growth of local flora, finding a reprieve from the labor of the fields in the stillness of the reserve. Even in the height of winter, when the frost hardens the banks of Cart Creek and Lake Charlie sits frozen under a heavy mantle of silence, the people of Crystal carry on with an unyielding, steady resolve that mirrors the endurance of the plains themselves.

Nearby Outdoor Places

C.c. Cook (State Conservation Area) — 11.3 mi, 240° SW
Icelandic State Park (State Park) — 12.2 mi, 347° N
Walsh County Water Management Board (State Recreation Area) — 12.4 mi, 261° W
Jay V. Wessels (State Conservation Area) — 13.7 mi, 319° NW
Homme Lake (Recreation Area) — 14.2 mi, 203° SW
Holman (State Recreation Area) — 18.4 mi, 341° N
Pembina County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 20.1 mi, 065° NE
North Dakota State Forest Service Land (State Resource Management Area) — 23.9 mi, 333° NW
Cavalier County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 27.3 mi, 266° W
Ardoch National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.1 mi, 146° SE · 632 acres
Walsh County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 30.3 mi, 246° SW · 312 acres
Pembina State Museum (Monument) — 32.1 mi, 036° NE
Survivor's Flower Bed (Monument) — 34.9 mi, 085° E
Minn-Dak Mural (Public Artwork) — 35.3 mi, 092° E
Anderson/Bagaas Burial (Monument) — 44.7 mi, 103° E
Till Hill (Viewpoint) — 46.2 mi, 170° S
Kittson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 47.0 mi, 078° E
Lake Bronson State Park (State Park) — 47.7 mi, 079° E
Karlstad Pavilion (Theatre) — 52.5 mi, 091° E
Heritage Village (Museum) — 54.1 mi, 146° SE
Leonard Hall Geology Museum (Museum) — 54.3 mi, 149° SE
River Cinema 15 (Cinema) — 54.8 mi, 147° SE
Empire Theatre (Theatre) — 55.0 mi, 148° SE
Viking Farmer Museam (Museum) — 63.7 mi, 114° SE
Sweetlight Gallery (Gallery) — 74.9 mi, 139° SE

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