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Hillsboro North Dakota Map

Explore Hillsboro, 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 Hillsboro, North Dakota

How to Use This Hillsboro, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	47.403868
Longitude	-97.062031
Population	1,649
Density	572.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58045
Area Code	701
County Seat	Hillsboro
School District	Hillsboro Public School District 9

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About Hillsboro, North Dakota

Hillsboro is a locality in Traill County, North Dakota, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,649. The population density is 572.6 people per km². Hillsboro is located at 47.4039°N, 97.0620°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hillsboro is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58045.

Hillsboro anchors itself firmly upon the flat, fertile expanse of the Red River Valley, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun before it touches the earth. It lies 36.1 miles south of Grand Forks, ND (from Grand Forks, ND: bearing 182°T), and is situated 33.2 miles southwest of Crookston. The Goose River carves a quiet, serpentine path through the landscape, its banks lined with dense thickets of cottonwood and willow that catch the pale, slanted light of late afternoon. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain remains stubbornly level, a vast geometry of black soil that seems to hold the sky in an endless, shifting reflection. Though the distant Altamont Moraine suggests a more rugged world to the west, Hillsboro exists in a state of stillness, where the wind carries the scent of dry grass and the metallic tang of approaching weather across the open plains.

Agriculture provides the steady, seasonal pulse of Hillsboro, with grain elevators rising like monoliths above the grid of streets to define the local skyline. The rhythm of the days is dictated by the planting and the harvest, a cycle that has persisted since the early settlers first broke the stubborn prairie sod. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned focus, often drawing residents toward the quiet solitude of the Traill County Waterfowl Production Area or the occasional excursion to the water at Grandin Lake. While the pace of modern industry pulls at the edges of the state, Hillsboro maintains a grounded character, finding its identity in the deep, dark soil and the expansive, cloud-streaked atmosphere that settles over the rooftops every evening.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Traill County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 17.8 mi, 257° W
Steele County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 23.8 mi, 256° W
Otto Spies (State Conservation Area) — 25.3 mi, 253° W
Erie Dam (State Conservation Area) — 26.5 mi, 218° SW
Golden Lake (State Recreation Area) — 28.7 mi, 293° NW
Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 32.7 mi, 107° E · 12k acres
Sweetlight Gallery (Gallery) — 33.2 mi, 039° NE
AFL CIO Commemorative Plaque (Monument) — 34.0 mi, 000° N
Zavoral Monument (Monument) — 34.5 mi, 005° N
Immersive Reality Room (Attraction) — 35.3 mi, 161° S
Leonard Hall Geology Museum (Museum) — 35.6 mi, 360° N
Empire Theatre (Theatre) — 36.0 mi, 002° N
Flood Memorial (Monument) — 36.1 mi, 002° N
Sitting Bull (Public Artwork) — 36.2 mi, 359° N
River Cinema 15 (Cinema) — 36.3 mi, 003° N
Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.5 mi, 063° NE · 46k acres
Minuteman II ICBM (Attraction) — 36.5 mi, 160° S
Miscellaneous (State Resource Management Area) — 36.6 mi, 128° SE
Heritage Village (Museum) — 37.5 mi, 003° N
Twin Valley Heritage & Art Center (Museum) — 38.9 mi, 104° E
Roger Maris Museum (Museum) — 39.0 mi, 165° S
Turtle River State Park (State Park) — 41.4 mi, 332° NW
Till Hill (Viewpoint) — 42.1 mi, 331° NW
Viking Sword Museum (Museum) — 43.8 mi, 120° SE
Buffalo River State Park (State Park) — 45.6 mi, 143° SE
Omwick Theatre (Cinema) — 55.3 mi, 233° SW
Sheyenne National Grassland (National Grassland) — 58.4 mi, 190° S · 70k acres
Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion (Attraction) — 59.8 mi, 139° SE
Young at Art Co (Gallery) — 70.1 mi, 125° SE

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