Landa North Dakota Map

About Landa, North Dakota

Landa is a locality in Bottineau County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 41. The population density is 208.3 people per km². Landa is located at 48.8967°N, 100.9118°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Landa is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58783.

Landa emerges from the vast, golden expanse of the North Dakota prairie like a quiet thought held against an enormous, unblinking sky. It lies 49.1 miles north-northeast of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 21°T), and is situated 21.7 miles west-northwest of Bottineau. The horizon here possesses a singular, crushing scale, where the earth flattens into a persistent table of wheat and stubble, punctuated only by the vertical reach of grain elevators and the occasional solitary tree. Two miles to the east, the Souris River carves a subtle, winding path through the silt, its presence marked by a thin ribbon of riparian green that interrupts the otherwise relentless pallor of the plains. To the north, the distant outline of Boundary Butte offers a faint, jagged interruption to the visual silence, while the far-off, dark mass of the Turtle Mountain State Forest looms like a bruised cloud, reminding the traveler of the rugged, wooded rise that persists beyond the reach of the immediate plains.

Landa persists as a testament to the iron-willed expansion of the railroad era, a node of commerce once tethered to the rhythmic pulse of grain harvests and the transit of heavy steel across the high plains. The local economy remains anchored to the soil, a cycle of sowing and reaping that dictates the tempo of life far more than the ticking of a clock. To the south, the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge provides a sanctuary for migratory birds, their seasonal cries cutting through the stillness that defines the day-to-day existence of those who remain. Life in Landa carries a deliberate, stripped-back quality, defined by the biting clarity of the winter air and the shimmering, heat-heavy light of mid-July afternoons, where the silence is less an absence of sound than a presence that demands to be acknowledged.

About This Landa Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Landa, North Dakota. Coordinates: 48.896686, -100.911821. 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 Landa includes the ZIP code (58783), telephone area code (701), county seat of Bottineau County (Bottineau), and school district assignment (Westhope Public School District 17).

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.