Explore Grenora, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Grenora, 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 Grenora.
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 | Grenora |
| State | North Dakota (ND) |
| County | Williams County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 48.618361 |
| Longitude | -103.937987 |
| Population | 221 |
| Density | 140.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 58845 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| County Seat | Williston |
| School District | Grenora Public School District 99 |
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.
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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).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |