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Leal North Dakota Map

Explore Leal, 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 Leal, North Dakota

How to Use This Leal, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	47.105266
Longitude	-98.317316
Population	27
Density	80.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58479
Area Code	701
County Seat	Valley City
School District	Barnes County North Public School District 7

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About Leal, North Dakota

Leal is a locality in Barnes County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 27. The population density is 80.8 people per km². Leal is located at 47.1053°N, 98.3173°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Leal is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58479.

Leal exists as a solitary grain of civilization scattered across the vast, treeless expanse of the North Dakota plains. It lies 22.8 miles northeast of Jamestown, ND (from Jamestown, ND: bearing 54°T), and is situated 19.4 miles northwest of Valley City. The sky here possesses an aggressive, expansive clarity that flattens the horizon, forcing the eye to trace the slow, rhythmic swells of the prairie grass as it shivers under a constant, restless wind. Only a few miles away, the Barnes County Waterfowl Production Area offers a sanctuary where the silence is broken only by the sudden, percussive beat of wings rising from the marshy depressions. To the west, the Grasshopper Hills provide a faint, jagged interruption to the skyline, while the occasional shadow of a cloud drifts over the earth like a slow, dark tide, emphasizing the immense scale of the land.

Leal remains a quiet monument to the era of the railroad, which once dictated the path of settlement and trade across these open spaces. The local economy persists as a quiet dialogue between the stubborn, iron-rich soil and the farmers who work it, relying on the seasonal patterns that govern life far from the reach of the distant, meandering Baldhill Creek. While Mud Lake stays tucked away in the lowlands nearby, the life of the place is defined by the endurance of those who have stayed to tend the fields and maintain the aging structures that line the tracks. The air in Leal carries the scent of dry earth and harvested stalks, a scent that marks the passage of time more reliably than any clock, grounding the residents in a cycle of planting and harvest that has persisted for generations.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Barnes County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 082° E
Ray Holland (State Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 068° E
Stutsman County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 10.5 mi, 314° NW
Lake Ashtabula (Recreation Area) — 12.1 mi, 113° SE
Spiritwood Lake (State Recreation Area) — 12.5 mi, 262° W
Hobart Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.2 mi, 147° SE · 494 acres
Valley City (State Conservation Area) — 17.3 mi, 112° E
Ashtabula Rearing Pond (State Recreation Area) — 18.6 mi, 066° NE
Established 1883 (Monument) — 19.4 mi, 131° SE
Omwick Theatre (Cinema) — 19.5 mi, 130° SE
Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.2 mi, 278° W · 27k acres
Pipestem Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 22.0 mi, 244° SW
World's Largest Buffalo (Monument) — 23.4 mi, 230° SW
Frontier Village (Attraction) — 23.4 mi, 231° SW
Bison 6 Cinema (Cinema) — 24.4 mi, 231° SW
Enderlin Area Veterans Monument (Monument) — 47.3 mi, 134° SE
Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 52.0 mi, 265° W · 4,204 acres
Sheyenne National Grassland (National Grassland) — 57.3 mi, 132° SE · 70k acres
Till Hill (Viewpoint) — 69.1 mi, 033° NE
Roger Maris Museum (Museum) — 71.4 mi, 103° E
Immersive Reality Room (Attraction) — 71.5 mi, 100° E
Minuteman II ICBM (Attraction) — 72.6 mi, 100° E
Warrior of the North (Public Artwork) — 73.0 mi, 037° NE
Long lake (Attraction) — 76.4 mi, 326° NW

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