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Emerado North Dakota Map

Explore Emerado, 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 Emerado, North Dakota

How to Use This Emerado, North Dakota Map

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

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	Emerado
State	North Dakota (ND)
County	Grand Forks County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	47.928568
Longitude	-97.361629
Population	443
Density	551.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58228
Area Code	701
County Seat	Grand Forks
School District	Emerado Public School District 127

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About Emerado, North Dakota

Emerado is a locality in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 443. The population density is 551.8 people per km². Emerado is located at 47.9286°N, 97.3616°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Emerado is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58228.

Emerado sits upon a vast, obsidian-flat expanse of prairie where the horizon line exists as a razor-thin division between the dark, fertile earth and the immense, vaulted sky. It lies 15.4 miles west of Grand Forks, ND (from Grand Forks, ND: bearing 268°T), and is situated 15.8 miles west of East Grand Forks. Hazen Brook carves a shallow, meandering path through the terrain, its banks lined with the skeletal remains of cottonwoods that shudder under the persistent, scouring winds of the plains. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Altamont Moraine suggests a world of verticality far removed from this level, unyielding basin. During the autumn, the light turns a brittle, pale gold, illuminating the stubble of harvested fields and casting long, melancholic shadows that stretch toward the Grand Forks County Waterfowl Production Area, where the collective movement of migrating wings creates a sudden, rhythmic pulse in the stillness.

Emerado persists as a quiet sentinel of the agricultural cycle, its identity forged in the steady labor of grain elevators and the seasonal shift of heavy machinery across the grid of gravel roads. History here is written in the geometry of the fields and the endurance of structures that have weathered decades of temperature extremes, standing as stark monuments to the families who broke this sod. Life in Emerado follows the slow, deliberate pace of the seasons, turning on the arrival of winter snows or the damp, expectant warmth of spring planting. Seven miles away, the waters of Kellys Slough Reservoir remain a quiet, reflective presence in the landscape, a reminder of the water that sustains the deep, black soil. The enduring character of Emerado is found in this quiet persistence, a place where the stillness of the prairie dictates the terms of existence and the sky remains the true measure of the day.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Warrior of the North (Public Artwork) — 1.7 mi, 333° NW
Grand Forks County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 017° N
Crawford Oakville Prairie (State Recreation Area) — 2.5 mi, 118° SE
Kellys Slough National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 3.6 mi, 055° NE · 1,634 acres
Prairie Chicken (State Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 343° N
Turtle River State Park (State Park) — 5.6 mi, 273° W
Kellys Slough (State Conservation Area) — 5.9 mi, 053° NE
Till Hill (Viewpoint) — 6.4 mi, 276° W
Grand Forks County Water Management Board (State Recreation Area) — 12.1 mi, 286° W
Leonard Hall Geology Museum (Museum) — 13.6 mi, 092° E
AFL CIO Commemorative Plaque (Monument) — 14.1 mi, 099° E
Ulland Park (Local Park) — 14.2 mi, 105° E
Empire Theatre (Theatre) — 15.3 mi, 091° E
Flood Memorial (Monument) — 15.4 mi, 090° E
River Cinema 15 (Cinema) — 15.5 mi, 090° E
Lincoln Drive Park (Local Park) — 15.6 mi, 094° E
Heritage Village (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 086° E
Zavoral Monument (Monument) — 17.2 mi, 096° E
Ardoch National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.7 mi, 004° N · 632 acres
Walsh County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 22.6 mi, 009° N
Sweetlight Gallery (Gallery) — 36.5 mi, 107° E
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 38.2 mi, 076° E
Viking Farmer Museam (Museum) — 48.6 mi, 065° NE
Karlstad Pavilion (Theatre) — 59.1 mi, 040° NE
Kittson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 64.4 mi, 030° NE
Twin Valley Heritage & Art Center (Museum) — 69.0 mi, 131° SE
Immersive Reality Room (Attraction) — 74.1 mi, 160° S
Minuteman II ICBM (Attraction) — 75.4 mi, 160° S
Omwick Theatre (Cinema) — 75.7 mi, 204° SW

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