Dunseith North Dakota Map

About Dunseith, North Dakota

Dunseith is a locality in Rolette County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 632. The population density is 243.5 people per km². Dunseith is located at 48.8131°N, 100.0610°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Dunseith is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58329.

Dunseith emerges from the vast, open prairie where the horizon stretches into an enormous, unyielding sky that dictates the rhythm of the day. It lies 69.3 miles northeast of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 54°T), and is situated 17.5 miles east of Bottineau. Willow Creek winds its way through the landscape, a quiet artery of water marking the transition between the flat, expansive plains and the rising elevations that define the region. Only a mile away, the quiet waters of Schutte Lake hold the stillness of the afternoon, reflecting a light that turns brittle and golden as it touches the tall, dry grasses. To the north, the Turtle Mountains loom as a dark, rugged silhouette against the clouds, while the North Dakota State Forest Service Land provides a sanctuary of scrub and timber that breaks the monotony of the cultivated fields.

Dunseith carries the weight of a history rooted in the grit of agricultural labor and the endurance of those who first broke this heavy soil. The local economy persists through the cycles of the harvest, tethered to the land that spreads toward the distant Shell Valley and the timbered reaches of the Homen State Forest. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a season, marked by the arrival of snow or the sudden, intense heat of a prairie summer. Residents move between the scattered structures and the surrounding plains with a familiarity born of long winters, finding a particular beauty in the way the twilight deepens the color of the earth, turning the gray stubble of the fields into a landscape of shadow and memory.

About This Dunseith Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dunseith, North Dakota. Coordinates: 48.813057, -100.060968. 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 Dunseith includes the ZIP code (58329), telephone area code (701), county seat of Rolette County (Rolla), and school district assignment (Dunseith Public School District 1).

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.