Grenora North Dakota Map

About Grenora, North Dakota

Grenora is a locality in Williams County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 221. The population density is 140.6 people per km². Grenora is located at 48.6184°N, 103.9380°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Grenora is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58845.

Grenora asserts itself against the vast, unrelenting prairie where the horizon line stretches thin and sharp as a blade. It lies 35.7 miles north-northwest of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 336°T), and is situated 63.1 miles north of Sidney. The landscape surrounding Grenora is defined by a rhythmic, undulating openness, punctuated only by the distant, solitary rise of Barr Butte. To the north, the Divide County Waterfowl Production Area offers a sanctuary for migratory birds, their cries often cutting through the stillness of the wide, unvarnished sky. Scorio Creek winds through the terrain five miles away, a modest artery in a land that stores its moisture in the deep, dark soil of the plains. Light here does not merely illuminate; it clarifies, bleaching the grasses to a pale straw color and casting long, violet shadows that seem to anchor the earth against the weight of the heavens.

Agriculture remains the pulse of the local economy, a quiet labor tied to the turning seasons and the stubborn persistence of wheat and barley. The history of the place is written in the geometry of fence lines and the weathered wood of grain elevators that stand as sentinels against the wind. Three miles from the center, the waters of Twin Lakes catch the shifting colors of the dusk, mirroring a sky that feels immense and indifferent to the clock. Life moves with a deliberate, tempered pace, shaped by the isolation of the plains and the seasonal demands of the harvest. Here, the silence is not an absence of sound, but a presence—a heavy, resonant quality that demands a certain humility from those who choose to call these plains their own.

About This Grenora Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Grenora, North Dakota. Coordinates: 48.618361, -103.937987. 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 Grenora includes the ZIP code (58845), telephone area code (701), county seat of Williams County (Williston), and school district assignment (Grenora Public School District 99).

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.