Explore Milnor, 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 Milnor, 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 Milnor.
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 | Milnor |
| State | North Dakota (ND) |
| County | Sargent County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 46.259128 |
| Longitude | -97.456202 |
| Population | 624 |
| Density | 244.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 58060 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| County Seat | Forman |
| School District | Milnor Public School District 2 |
Milnor emerges from the vast, open prairie as a quiet congregation of structures defined by the immense, light-filled sky that presses down upon the flat horizons of North Dakota. It lies 50.1 miles south-southwest of West Fargo, ND (from West Fargo, ND: bearing 212°T), and is situated 16.6 miles southeast of Lisbon. The landscape here is defined by a slow, rhythmic transition of terrain, where the ancient, dried-out expanse of the Fangsrud Lake Bed marks the earth just a mile away, and the calm waters of Storm Lake sit at the edge of the local geography. Beyond the town limits, the land stretches out in a subtle, enduring stillness, occasionally interrupted by the presence of the Storm Lake National Wildlife Refuge, which invites migratory patterns to brush against the periphery of the daily grind. The air carries a crisp, unadorned clarity, especially when the sun dips low and casts long, amber shadows across the fields that seem to hold the heat of the day long after the light has faded.
Agriculture dictates the pulse of Milnor, anchoring the economy to the seasonal cycles of planting and harvest that have sustained the region since its early settlement. The surrounding soil, dark and fertile, is worked with a persistence that honors the legacy of those who first broke this ground, while the distant, winding path of Crooked Creek six miles away serves as a reminder of the water that shapes the wider basin. Residents balance the demands of modern machinery and regional trade with a deep, unspoken familiarity with the nearby Sheyenne National Grassland, where the wilder, uncultivated grasses offer a different perspective on the endurance of the plains. Life here moves with the measured pace of a place that understands its own scale, where the most significant events are often found in the quiet persistence of neighborly cooperation and the steady, reliable rhythm of a community that knows exactly where it stands in the wide, open country.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Milnor, North Dakota. Coordinates: 46.259128, -97.456202. 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 Milnor includes the ZIP code (58060), telephone area code (701), county seat of Sargent County (Forman), and school district assignment (Milnor Public School District 2).
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. |