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Fortuna North Dakota Map

Explore Fortuna, 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 Fortuna, North Dakota

How to Use This Fortuna, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	48.910032
Longitude	-103.77937
Population	30
Density	11.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58844
Area Code	701
County Seat	Crosby
School District	Divide County Public School District 1

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About Fortuna, North Dakota

Fortuna is a locality in Divide County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 30. The population density is 11.5 people per km². Fortuna is located at 48.9100°N, 103.7794°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Fortuna is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58844.

Fortuna emerges from the high, open prairie as a collection of weathered structures anchored against an enormous, unrelenting sky. It lies 53.2 miles north of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 352°T), and is situated 84.3 miles north-northeast of Sidney. The landscape around Fortuna is defined by a vast, treeless expanse where the wind exerts a constant, sculpting pressure upon the earth, carving the subtle contours of the plains. To the southwest, the distant, hazy silhouette of Smoky Butte marks the horizon, while the immediate periphery is defined by the Divide County Waterfowl Production Area, where the grasses sigh in rhythmic waves. Five miles away, the surface of Skjermo Lake mirrors the shifting moods of the clouds, a quiet basin in an otherwise thirsty terrain. During the deep, amber light of late afternoon, the shadows lengthen across the gravel roads, revealing the stark, geometric simplicity of a place that exists entirely on its own terms.

Economic life in Fortuna remains tethered to the patient labor of the soil and the subterranean reach of the oil patch, reflecting a history shaped by the resilience of those who first broke the sod. Though Long Creek winds its path seventeen miles to the south, the local rhythm is dictated less by water than by the cycle of harvest and the pulse of industrial extraction that defines the broader region. The town serves as a quiet witness to the legacy of the Dakota and Lakota peoples who moved across these plains long before the arrival of modern fences. Daily existence moves with a deliberate, sparse efficiency, leaving room for the profound silence that settles over the prairie once the work of the day concludes. In the quiet intersections of the grid, one feels the weight of a landscape that demands much from its inhabitants but offers, in return, a singular and unvarnished clarity of vision.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Divide County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 0.4 mi, 334° NW
Sheridan County Waterfowl Production Area Of Mt (Resource Management Area) — 12.2 mi, 269° W
Montana State Trust Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 12.4 mi, 278° W
Comertown Pothole Prairie Preserve (Conservation Area) — 20.0 mi, 270° W
Blue Ridge (State Conservation Area) — 21.1 mi, 151° SE
Lake Zahl National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.4 mi, 167° S · 6,424 acres
Brush Lake State Park (State Park) — 25.6 mi, 215° SW
Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.9 mi, 217° SW · 63k acres
Harris M. Baukol (State Conservation Area) — 35.7 mi, 093° E
Sheridan County Agriculture Museum and Civic Center (Museum) — 35.9 mi, 255° W
Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 38.8 mi, 222° SW · 12k acres
Sloulin Field International Airport (historic) (Historic Ruins) — 51.0 mi, 173° S
Gn 3059 (Attraction) — 53.5 mi, 172° S
Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 60.7 mi, 105° E · 5,522 acres
Culbertson Museum (Museum) — 61.9 mi, 212° SW
Little Missouri National Grassland (National Grassland) — 72.4 mi, 180° S · 1.0M acres
Lewis and Clark Trail Museum (Museum) — 73.8 mi, 175° S
Monument 538B (Attraction) — 74.1 mi, 275° W
Daniels County Museum (Museum) — 75.6 mi, 264° W
Six Shooters Showall (Cinema) — 79.9 mi, 163° S

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