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Napoleon North Dakota Map

Explore Napoleon, 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 Napoleon, North Dakota

How to Use This Napoleon, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	46.508313
Longitude	-99.77122
Population	749
Density	209.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58561
Area Code	701
County Seat	Napoleon
School District	Napoleon Public School District 2

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About Napoleon, North Dakota

Napoleon is a locality in Logan County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 749. The population density is 209.1 people per km². Napoleon is located at 46.5083°N, 99.7712°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Napoleon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58561.

Napoleon rises from the expansive, treeless plains of North Dakota like a solitary anchor cast into an ocean of grass. It lies 52.3 miles east-southeast of Bismarck, ND (from Bismarck, ND: bearing 113°T), and is situated 57.4 miles east-southeast of Mandan. The horizon pulls the sky downward in a vast, pale arc, pressing against the earth until the silence feels heavy and full. To the northwest, the Altamont Moraine hums with the memory of ancient ice, its irregular rises breaking the monotony of the flatlands that stretch toward the distant, shimmering surface of McKenna Lake. Here, the light at dusk is a bruised violet, turning the stalks of wheat into thin, gilded wires that shiver under the persistent, restless wind.

Napoleon carries the weight of a history carved by the plow and the cold, built upon the hard labor of those who arrived to break the stubborn sod. The economy draws its strength from the cycles of the harvest, with grain elevators standing as sentinels that watch over the quiet streets where the pace of life is dictated by the turning seasons. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, the landscape shifts toward the rugged terrain near Beaver Creek and the protected stillness of the Logan County Waterfowl Production Area, where the land remains largely untamed. Even as the modern world pushes against these borders, Napoleon retains the austere character of the high plains, a place where the distance between neighbors is measured in patience and the slow, steady persistence of the soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Beaver Lake State Park (State Park) — 9.9 mi, 133° SE
Emmons County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 9.9 mi, 312° NW
Old Settlers Monument (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 134° SE
Alkaline Lake (State Recreation Area) — 11.9 mi, 044° NE
Logan County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.0 mi, 105° E · 326 acres
Dawson (State Conservation Area) — 16.6 mi, 001° N
Logan County (State Conservation Area) — 16.9 mi, 120° SE
Kidder County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 17.0 mi, 007° N
Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 18.5 mi, 331° NW · 28k acres
World's Largest Sandhill Crane (Public Artwork) — 25.3 mi, 345° N
Green Lake (State Recreation Area) — 25.7 mi, 144° SE
National Waterfowl Production Area (Nature Reserve) — 33.3 mi, 136° SE
Oaha Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 34.4 mi, 241° SW
Lake Oahe (Recreation Area) — 36.3 mi, 276° W
Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 36.5 mi, 023° NE · 4,204 acres
Mile 173 Border Monument (Monument) — 43.1 mi, 205° SW
Standing Rock Monument (Monument) — 49.9 mi, 235° SW
Sitting Bull Visitor Center (Attraction) — 52.2 mi, 236° SW
North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum (Museum) — 52.4 mi, 295° NW
Archeology & Historic Preservation (Museum) — 52.5 mi, 295° NW
AMC CLASSIC Bismarck 8 (Cinema) — 52.8 mi, 296° NW
Myron Atkinson and T. Clem Casey Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 54.2 mi, 298° NW
Bison 6 Cinema (Cinema) — 56.1 mi, 062° NE
Frontier Village (Attraction) — 57.2 mi, 062° NE
The Klein Museum (Museum) — 73.8 mi, 206° SW

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