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Granville North Dakota Map

Explore Granville, 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 Granville, North Dakota

How to Use This Granville, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	48.267787
Longitude	-100.842644
Population	240
Density	292.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58741
Area Code	701
County Seat	Towner
School District	TGU Public School District 60

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About Granville, North Dakota

Granville is a locality in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 240. The population density is 292.3 people per km². Granville is located at 48.2678°N, 100.8426°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Granville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58741.

Granville occupies a flat expanse of North Dakota prairie where the sky asserts its weight against the horizon, pressing down upon the grasses until the world feels like a vast, monochromatic bowl. It lies 21.0 miles east of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 83°T), and is situated 24.6 miles east-southeast of Minot AFB. South Egg Creek meanders near the outskirts, a thin ribbon of water cutting through the earth that provides a quiet, persistent rhythm to the landscape. To the west, the silhouettes of the Henderson Hills rise like a jagged promise, while the nearby McHenry County Waterfowl Production Area offers a sanctuary for the migratory life that patterns the seasonal air. The light here at dusk possesses a peculiar clarity, turning the fields of chaff and stubble into a burnished copper that holds the heat of the day long after the sun has dipped below the edge of the plains.

Granville emerged from the expansion of the rails, serving as a vital point of commerce for those who broke the sod and built their lives against the relentless wind. The economy remains tethered to the cycles of the earth, defined by the harvest and the persistent, solitary labor of those who manage the grain elevators and the surrounding farmsteads. Residents often look toward the depression of Hay Coulee or the quiet shimmer of Oslie Lake as markers of the geography they navigate daily, a land that demands a certain stoicism from its inhabitants. Life in Granville moves with the slow, deliberate pace of a place that understands its own isolation, where the distance between neighbors is measured in patience and the shared knowledge of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mchenry County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 2.9 mi, 180° S
Denbigh Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 9.0 mi, 083° E · 595 acres
Denbigh Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 9.1 mi, 078° E
David Thompson Historical Monument (Monument) — 10.9 mi, 157° SE
Heffner Lake (State Recreation Area) — 15.9 mi, 110° E
J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.9 mi, 020° N · 110k acres
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 21.2 mi, 267° W
North Dakota State Forest Service Land (State Resource Management Area) — 21.2 mi, 070° E
Souris Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 21.9 mi, 069° E · 105 acres
Sand Hill (State Conservation Area) — 24.2 mi, 065° NE
Ward County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 24.6 mi, 197° S
Horseshoe Lake (State Recreation Area) — 29.8 mi, 070° E
Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 30.7 mi, 285° W · 63k acres
Prairie Village Museum (Museum) — 39.4 mi, 081° E
Northern Lights Tower (Monument) — 39.4 mi, 081° E
Lonetree (State Conservation Area) — 40.4 mi, 147° SE
Sunflower Mural (Public Artwork) — 42.6 mi, 025° NE
Ryder Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 45.4 mi, 238° SW
Old Baldy Overlook (Viewpoint) — 47.0 mi, 022° N
Monument 670A (Attraction) — 55.8 mi, 335° NW
Ziegler School (Historic Ruins) — 64.2 mi, 228° SW
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center (Museum) — 67.4 mi, 188° S
McLean County Museum (Museum) — 68.1 mi, 187° S
Long lake (Attraction) — 75.8 mi, 103° E

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