Great Bend North Dakota Map

About Great Bend, North Dakota

Great Bend is a locality in Richland County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 49. The population density is 33.7 people per km². Great Bend is located at 46.1538°N, 96.8020°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Great Bend is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58075.

Great Bend occupies a quiet expanse of the northern plains, defined by the persistent, purposeful movement of the Wild Rice River as it carves a path through the flat, fertile earth. It lies 50.0 miles south of Fargo, ND (from Fargo, ND: bearing 181°T), and is situated 12.1 miles southwest of Wahpeton. The landscape here is one of vast, open horizons where the sky exerts a heavy, hypnotic gravity, pressing down upon the fields until the distinction between land and air softens into a singular, muted gray at dusk. Eight miles to the west, the subtle rise of Devils Nest breaks the monotony of the horizon, providing a point of orientation in an otherwise boundless stretch of prairie. To the east, the landscape transitions into the distinct, sandy topography of the Sheyenne National Grassland, where the wind shapes the soil into persistent, shifting forms that mirror the slow, seasonal pulse of the surrounding countryside.

Great Bend retains the quiet, deliberate character of a place built upon the labor of the soil, its economy tied inextricably to the rhythms of harvest and the persistence of local agriculture. The history of the area is written in the steel grain elevators that rise like monoliths above the flat terrain, serving as silent sentinels that have observed the transition of these plains across generations. Life in Great Bend moves in alignment with the changing light, a pace dictated by the requirements of the land rather than the urgency of the clock. While Grass Lake sits eight miles away as a quiet, reflective anchor for the region’s natural cycle, the daily reality for those who remain here is found in the stillness of the fields and the enduring, unadorned resilience of a life lived close to the earth.

About This Great Bend Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Great Bend, North Dakota. Coordinates: 46.153847, -96.802023. 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 Great Bend includes the ZIP code (58075), telephone area code (701), county seat of Richland County (Wahpeton), and school district assignment (Wahpeton Public School District 37).

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.