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Drake North Dakota Map

Explore Drake, 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 Drake, North Dakota

How to Use This Drake, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	47.924169
Longitude	-100.37236
Population	292
Density	57.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58736
Area Code	701
County Seat	Towner
School District	Drake Public School District 57

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About Drake, North Dakota

Drake is a locality in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 292. The population density is 57.1 people per km². Drake is located at 47.9242°N, 100.3724°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Drake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58736.

Drake occupies a vast, hushed expanse of the northern plains where the horizon pulls the sky down to meet the golden, wind-brushed grasses. It lies 47.7 miles east-southeast of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 116°T), and is situated 55.8 miles southeast of Minot AFB. The landscape surrounding Drake remains defined by a rigorous, open topography, punctuated two miles to the east by the quiet, still waters of Alkali Lake and the managed, wild grasses of the Mchenry County Waterfowl Production Area. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of Hogback Ridge asserts a jagged permanence against the twilight, while the Wintering River snakes through the earth four miles away, carving a subtle path through the soil that has fed these reaches for generations. Light here possesses a singular, crystalline quality at dusk, turning the stubble of harvested fields into rows of burnished copper that stretch until the world simply runs out of detail.

Agriculture remains the pulse of the local economy, with the rhythm of the seasons dictate the movement of machinery and the slow, deliberate pace of the day. Settlers established the roots of Drake by looking to the fertile, stubborn soil, and the legacy of that endurance persists in the quiet maintenance of the grain elevators that stand like sentinels above the plains. Ten miles away, the Wintering River Flats provide a low-lying basin that reminds the inhabitants of the slow, geologic work of water in a land that otherwise appears caught in a permanent, breathless stasis. Life in Drake moves with the gravity of a place that understands the weight of the seasons, where the primary labor is a conversation between the tiller and the deep, dark earth, and the silence of the prairie is not an absence, but a presence that demands to be heard.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mchenry County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 1.6 mi, 186° S
Sheridan County Waterfowl Production Area Of Nd (Resource Management Area) — 8.4 mi, 173° S
Lonetree (State Conservation Area) — 10.3 mi, 179° S
Round Lake Township (State Recreation Area) — 11.4 mi, 019° N
Pierce County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.0 mi, 061° NE · 2,104 acres
Heffner Lake (State Recreation Area) — 18.4 mi, 343° N
Mclean County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.2 mi, 236° SW · 802 acres
Charles Schroeder (State Conservation Area) — 20.1 mi, 216° SW
David Thompson Historical Monument (Monument) — 22.2 mi, 308° NW
Denbigh Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 27.4 mi, 335° NW · 595 acres
Souris Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 31.4 mi, 359° N · 105 acres
Prairie Village Museum (Museum) — 34.4 mi, 030° NE
Northern Lights Tower (Monument) — 34.4 mi, 030° NE
Lake Holmes WDA (National Conservation Area) — 37.7 mi, 218° SW · 726 acres
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 48.5 mi, 298° NW
Long lake (Attraction) — 52.7 mi, 082° E
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center (Museum) — 53.1 mi, 216° SW
Seamans Overlook (Viewpoint) — 54.7 mi, 218° SW
Ryder Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 60.3 mi, 270° W
Tommy Turtle (Public Artwork) — 62.1 mi, 358° N
Ziegler School (Historic Ruins) — 72.3 mi, 255° W
Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 75.3 mi, 146° SE · 4,204 acres
Myron Atkinson and T. Clem Casey Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 75.5 mi, 195° S
AMC CLASSIC Bismarck 8 (Cinema) — 77.5 mi, 194° S
North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum (Museum) — 78.7 mi, 194° S
Archeology & Historic Preservation (Museum) — 78.7 mi, 194° S

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