Emerado North Dakota Map

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.

About This Emerado Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Emerado, North Dakota. Coordinates: 47.928568, -97.361629. 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 Emerado includes the ZIP code (58228), telephone area code (701), county seat of Grand Forks County (Grand Forks), and school district assignment (Emerado Public School District 127).

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.