Drake North Dakota Map

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.

About This Drake Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Drake, North Dakota. Coordinates: 47.924169, -100.37236. 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 Drake includes the ZIP code (58736), telephone area code (701), county seat of McHenry County (Towner), and school district assignment (Drake Public School District 57).

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.