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Kensal North Dakota Map

Explore Kensal, 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 Kensal, North Dakota

How to Use This Kensal, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	47.30083
Longitude	-98.733438
Population	146
Density	93.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58455
Area Code	701
County Seat	Jamestown
School District	Kensal Public School District 19

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About Kensal, North Dakota

Kensal is a locality in Stutsman County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 146. The population density is 93.3 people per km². Kensal is located at 47.3008°N, 98.7334°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Kensal is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58455.

Kensal emerges from the immense, pale geometry of the North Dakota plains, where the horizon serves as a sharp line dividing the earth from the heavy, shifting weather. It lies 27.0 miles north of Jamestown, ND (from Jamestown, ND: bearing 358°T), and is situated 21.1 miles east-southeast of Carrington. The landscape here is defined by long, rhythmic swells of prairie grass that stretch toward the distant Grasshopper Hills, their silhouettes softening into the haze of an afternoon sun. To the north, the terrain dips into the quiet moisture of the Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge, a sanctuary where the air carries the scent of damp earth and tall, swaying reeds. Near the edges of the fields, Stony Brook carves a shallow, meandering path through the silt, providing a persistent, low-frequency pulse to the silence of the countryside. In the late autumn, the light turns a bruised, metallic gold, catching the stubble of harvested fields and casting long, thin shadows that seem to anchor Kensal to the soil.

Kensal was built upon the relentless ambition of the early rail-era expansion, constructed to serve the vast, golden yields of wheat and sunflowers that still define the local economy. The architecture remains functional and unadorned, reflecting a culture that values the utility of a grain elevator or a heavy-duty tractor over the ornamental. Life moves in alignment with the growing season, a cycle that dictates the pace of the streets and the quiet, steady industry of the local producers. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the land descends into the subtle, hidden depressions of Bennetts Coulee, while the migratory patterns of birds frequently draw observers toward the quiet waters of Arrowwood Lake. There is a profound, stoic patience in the way Kensal persists, an endurance forged by generations who learned to read the sky for signs of frost or rain, finding a singular, stark beauty in the persistent isolation of the high plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 3.4 mi, 270° W · 27k acres
Stutsman County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 203° SW
Foster County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 3.8 mi, 318° NW
Pipestem Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 15.5 mi, 217° SW
Spiritwood Lake (State Recreation Area) — 16.6 mi, 156° SE
Rusten Slough (State Conservation Area) — 17.4 mi, 340° N
Pipestem Lake (Recreation Area) — 19.6 mi, 201° S
Howard Stone (State Conservation Area) — 22.5 mi, 014° N
Sibley Lake (State Recreation Area) — 22.7 mi, 052° NE
Frontier Village (Attraction) — 28.5 mi, 177° S
World's Largest Buffalo (Monument) — 28.5 mi, 177° S
Bison 6 Cinema (Cinema) — 28.8 mi, 179° S
Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 37.2 mi, 240° SW · 4,204 acres
Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.2 mi, 240° SW · 8,708 acres
Established 1883 (Monument) — 43.0 mi, 127° SE
Omwick Theatre (Cinema) — 43.2 mi, 127° SE
Grahams Island State Park (State Park) — 53.0 mi, 344° N
Long lake (Attraction) — 55.0 mi, 335° NW
World's Largest Sandhill Crane (Public Artwork) — 63.3 mi, 242° SW
Enderlin Area Veterans Monument (Monument) — 70.9 mi, 131° SE
Till Hill (Viewpoint) — 72.4 mi, 052° NE

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