Mooreton North Dakota Map

About Mooreton, North Dakota

Mooreton is a locality in Richland County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 177. The population density is 256.0 people per km². Mooreton is located at 46.2686°N, 96.8762°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mooreton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58061.

Mooreton occupies a quiet expanse of the North Dakota plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pulled tight like a drumhead beneath an enormous, impartial sky. It lies 41.9 miles south of West Fargo, ND (from West Fargo, ND: bearing 178°T), and is situated 12.9 miles west of Wahpeton. Antelope Creek traces a modest, winding path through the local topography, its presence marked by the deepening of green grasses that bow in the constant, restless wind. In the distance, the subtle, jagged silhouette of Devils Nest rises against the dusk, a faint reminder of the earth’s ancient, irregular pulse. The light here has a peculiar, crystalline quality, turning the late afternoon fields into shades of amber and pale violet, as if the very air were holding its breath before the coming of the starlit cold.

Mooreton remains grounded in the quiet, methodical labor of the soil, with a legacy tied to the steady rhythm of agriculture and the expansion of the rail lines that once defined its growth. Beyond the immediate fields, the expansive Sheyenne National Grassland offers a vast, untamed corridor of native prairie that speaks to a time before the plow, while Stacks Slough waits fourteen miles away as a silent, seasonal basin for the migratory birds that pass through in the spring. The local economy persists through the patient tending of crops and the maintenance of the grain elevators that stand as sentinels over the tracks. Life here moves with a measured, deliberate pace, defined by the seasonal shifts of the harvest and the enduring, solitary character of those who choose to settle where the land is wide enough to see the weather coming from a hundred miles away.

About This Mooreton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mooreton, North Dakota. Coordinates: 46.26857, -96.876192. 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 Mooreton includes the ZIP code (58061), telephone area code (701), county seat of Richland County (Wahpeton), and school district assignment (Wahpeton Public School District 37).

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.