Portal North Dakota Map
Explore Portal, 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 Portal, North Dakota
How to Use This Portal, North Dakota Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Portal, 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 Portal.
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 | Portal |
| State | North Dakota (ND) |
| County | Burke County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Standard Time — no DST (America/Regina) |
| Latitude | 48.995864 |
| Longitude | -102.549613 |
| Population | 125 |
| Density | 72.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 58772 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| County Seat | Bowbells |
| School District | Burke Central Public School District 36 |
About Portal, North Dakota
Portal is a locality in Burke County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 125. The population density is 72.2 people per km². Portal is located at 48.9959°N, 102.5496°W. It observes the Central Standard Time — no DST (America/Regina) timezone. Portal is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58772.Portal occupies a vast, open expanse where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pinning the earth beneath an enormous, indifferent sky. It lies 76.3 miles northeast of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 39°T), and is situated 47.4 miles north of Stanley. The landscape surrounding Portal is defined by a rigorous, flat clarity, where the wind shapes the tall grasses into shivering waves that never break. Three miles away, the quiet waters of Little Slough reflect the shifting palette of the heavens, while the Souris River winds through the lower terrain seven miles to the south, carving a subtle, serpentine path through the prairie floor. During the quiet hours of dusk, the light here loses its harshness, turning the gray soil into a bruised violet that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has slipped from view.
Portal exists as a singular point of transition, established at the very edge of the map where the pulse of commerce beats against the silence of the plains. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythmic demands of agriculture and the persistent, industrious labor of the rail lines that have long dictated the movement of grain and goods through the region. Nine miles away, the Burke County Waterfowl Production Area serves as a sanctuary for the migratory life that defines the seasonal cycle, a necessary wilderness that keeps the human footprint modest. Life in Portal moves with a slow, deliberate gravity, favoring the steady persistence of those who find beauty in the spare, unadorned geometry of the fields and the stark, honest utility of the winter frost.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Burke County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 8.8 mi, 205° SW
- Short Creek (State Conservation Area) — 9.8 mi, 266° W
- Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.0 mi, 090° E · 28k acres
- Harris M. Baukol (State Conservation Area) — 19.4 mi, 246° SW
- Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.2 mi, 173° S · 55k acres
- Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 22.2 mi, 173° S · 5,522 acres
- Divide County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 25.4 mi, 222° SW
- Smishek Lake (State Recreation Area) — 25.4 mi, 190° S
- Manitoba - Saskatchewan boundary (Monument) — 53.8 mi, 089° E
- Monument 670A (Attraction) — 53.8 mi, 089° E
- Sakakawea Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 58.7 mi, 189° S
- Lake Sakakawea (Recreation Area) — 60.0 mi, 190° S
- Little Missouri National Grassland (National Grassland) — 62.1 mi, 191° S · 1.0M acres
- Lewis And Clark State Park (State Park) — 67.1 mi, 208° SW
- Sloulin Field International Airport (historic) (Historic Ruins) — 75.4 mi, 222° SW
- Gn 3059 (Attraction) — 76.6 mi, 220° SW
- Amphitheater (Theatre) — 76.8 mi, 132° SE
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About This Portal Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Portal, North Dakota. Coordinates: 48.995864, -102.549613. 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 Portal includes the ZIP code (58772), telephone area code (701), county seat of Burke County (Bowbells), and school district assignment (Burke Central Public School District 36).
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. |
