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Ruthville North Dakota Map

Explore Ruthville, 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 Ruthville, North Dakota

How to Use This Ruthville, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	48.371681
Longitude	-101.298772
Population	151
Density	381.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	58703
Area Code	701
County Seat	Minot
School District	Glenburn Public School District 26

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About Ruthville, North Dakota

Ruthville is a locality in Ward County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 151. The population density is 381.1 people per km². Ruthville is located at 48.3717°N, 101.2988°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 58703.

Ruthville emerges from the vast, golden expanse of the North Dakota prairie like a deliberate pause in a long, wind-swept sentence. It lies 9.6 miles north of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 359°T), and is situated 3.6 miles south-southeast of Minot AFB. The horizon here is a flat, uncompromising line that draws the eye toward the Henderson Hills, which shimmer as a faint, violet bruise against the northern sky at dusk. Closer to the grid of gravel roads and weathered grain silos, the earth yields to the quiet presence of Livingston Creek, where the water moves with a sluggish, silver persistence through the tall grasses. During the autumn, the light loses its sharp summer edge, turning the sky into a wide, pale dome that seems to press down on the landscape, illuminating the subtle, dried textures of the plains until every tuft of wheat stubble stands in high relief.

Ruthville owes its endurance to the stubborn geometry of the homestead era, when families staked their lives on the promise of black, nutrient-rich soil. The economy remains tethered to the rhythmic cycles of the harvest, with the local grain elevators serving as the primary architecture of a life dictated by the yield of the fields. Beyond the immediate reach of the silos, the land dips into the shadowed folds of Larsons Coulee, a natural depression that provides a sheltered contrast to the exposed, expansive openness of the surrounding plains. On weekends, the quietude is occasionally broken by the distant hum of activity near Polaris Park, a space that preserves the quiet solitude of the region for those who wish to walk among the native prairie grasses. Life in Ruthville persists in this measured cadence, defined not by the rush of modern sprawl, but by the watchful stillness of a place that understands the weight of the seasons and the patience required to survive them.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Sertoma Softball Complex (Local Recreation) — 8.1 mi, 178° S
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 8.4 mi, 181° S
Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 8.8 mi, 273° W · 63k acres
Oak Park (Local Park) — 9.1 mi, 184° S
Roosevelt Park & Zoo (Local Park) — 9.2 mi, 174° S
South Hill Complex (Local Recreation) — 10.4 mi, 177° S
Foxholm (State Conservation Area) — 14.3 mi, 273° W
Bottineau County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.7 mi, 351° N · 434 acres
Mchenry County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 17.7 mi, 115° SE
Ward County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 24.0 mi, 188° S
Denbigh Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 30.4 mi, 100° E · 595 acres
David Thompson Historical Monument (Monument) — 30.6 mi, 124° SE
Ryder Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 35.8 mi, 209° SW
Souris Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 41.5 mi, 089° E · 105 acres
Monument 670A (Attraction) — 43.5 mi, 356° N
Manitoba - Saskatchewan boundary (Monument) — 43.5 mi, 356° N
Statue of Pierre Bottineau (Public Artwork) — 50.0 mi, 051° NE
Old Baldy Overlook (Viewpoint) — 52.9 mi, 046° NE
Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 54.9 mi, 290° W · 5,522 acres
Ziegler School (Historic Ruins) — 56.8 mi, 208° SW
Prairie Village Museum (Museum) — 59.9 mi, 091° E
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center (Museum) — 74.9 mi, 171° S
McLean County Museum (Museum) — 75.8 mi, 170° S

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