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Porcupine North Dakota Map

Explore Porcupine, 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 Porcupine, North Dakota

How to Use This Porcupine, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	46.21889
Longitude	-101.098742
Population	197
Density	376.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	58568
Area Code	701
County Seat	Fort Yates
School District	Fort Yates Public School District 4

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About Porcupine, North Dakota

Porcupine is a locality in Sioux County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 197. The population density is 376.5 people per km². Porcupine is located at 46.2189°N, 101.0987°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 58568.

Porcupine emerges from the vast, unyielding expanse of the North Dakota prairie like a quiet gathering of earth and sky. It lies 43.2 miles south-southwest of Mandan, ND (from Mandan, ND: bearing 193°T), and is situated 43.4 miles south-southwest of Bismarck. The Cannonball River carves a deliberate path only a mile away, its presence marking the land with a ribbon of deeper green that contrasts against the tawny, sun-bleached grasses of the plains. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Pamplin Hills provide a jagged, bruised-purple boundary to the horizon, while the quality of light at dusk softens the sharp edges of the landscape, turning the dry soil into a field of deepening copper and amber. Six miles out, the waters of Froelich Dam offer a stillness that mirrors the immense, cloud-swept heavens above, grounding the region in a silence that feels both ancient and entirely present.

Porcupine bears the weight of a history rooted in the enduring legacy of the Dakota people, whose connection to these plains informs the very character of the terrain. The local economy persists through the patient cycles of agriculture and the rhythms of a life lived in harmony with the temperamental elements of the high plains, where the wind carries the scent of sage and turned earth. While Little Heart Flats remains a quiet feature of the broader geography eight miles distant, the daily life of Porcupine centers on the steady, unassuming persistence of those who call this expanse home. There is a particular dignity in the way the morning frost clings to the fence lines, a brief, glittering testimony to the endurance required to inhabit a place where the horizon seems to stretch into infinity, unburdened by the clamor of the outside world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Froelich Dam (State Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 130° SE
Three Buttes (State Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 329° NW
Cedar River National Grassland (National Grassland) — 15.8 mi, 204° SW · 6,714 acres
Oaha Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 19.4 mi, 098° E
Lake Oahe (Recreation Area) — 21.6 mi, 110° E
Mile 230 North Dakota / South Dakota boundary (Monument) — 22.1 mi, 211° SW
Sitting Bull Visitor Center (Attraction) — 22.2 mi, 114° SE
Standing Rock Monument (Monument) — 24.2 mi, 111° E
Emmons County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 29.7 mi, 069° E
Sunburst Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 30.4 mi, 072° E · 329 acres
Mile 186½ North Dakota South Dakota boundary marker (Monument) — 37.2 mi, 120° SE
Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park (State Park) — 38.5 mi, 018° N
Archeology & Historic Preservation (Museum) — 44.1 mi, 020° N
North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum (Museum) — 44.2 mi, 020° N
National Waterfowl Production Area (Nature Reserve) — 44.8 mi, 099° E
Sweetbriar Lake (State Recreation Area) — 45.0 mi, 351° N
AMC CLASSIC Bismarck 8 (Cinema) — 45.3 mi, 020° N
Salem Sue (Public Artwork) — 46.5 mi, 341° N
Myron Atkinson and T. Clem Casey Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 47.2 mi, 018° N
Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 50.0 mi, 050° NE · 28k acres
BOR Lands (National Conservation Area) — 51.7 mi, 305° NW · 1,514 acres
Grand River National Grassland (National Grassland) — 55.5 mi, 220° SW · 155k acres
The Klein Museum (Museum) — 55.8 mi, 146° SE
McLean County Museum (Museum) — 74.1 mi, 003° N
Seamans Overlook (Viewpoint) — 74.5 mi, 000° N
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center (Museum) — 74.8 mi, 002° N

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