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Sheldon North Dakota Map

Explore Sheldon, 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 Sheldon, North Dakota

How to Use This Sheldon, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	46.585804
Longitude	-97.491204
Population	95
Density	89.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58068
Area Code	701
County Seat	Lisbon
School District	Enderlin Area Public School District 24

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About Sheldon, North Dakota

Sheldon is a locality in Ransom County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 95. The population density is 89.7 people per km². Sheldon is located at 46.5858°N, 97.4912°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Sheldon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58068.

Sheldon occupies a quiet expanse of the North Dakota plains, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the day in a single, unblinking gaze. It lies 34.4 miles southwest of West Fargo, ND (from West Fargo, ND: bearing 235°T), and is situated 13.4 miles northeast of Lisbon. The earth here is a deep, fertile loam, a level foundation that yields to the slow, deliberate movement of the Maple River just four miles away. To the west, the distant silhouette of the Whitestone Hills serves as a faint, jagged reminder of the earth’s ancient restlessness, while the closer Ransom County Waterfowl Production Area provides a sanctuary for the rhythmic pulse of seasonal migration. When the sun begins to retreat, the sky deepens into a bruised violet, casting long, lean shadows across the fields that seem to hold the heat of the afternoon long after the light has faded.

Sheldon carries the quiet weight of a place built upon the labor of the soil, where the economy remains tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest. The heritage of the land is preserved in the persistent work of local farmers, who navigate the vast, open tracts with a practiced patience born of generations. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the landscape shifts toward the wilder, sandy grasses of the Sheyenne National Grassland, a reminder of the prairie as it existed before the plow. Life in Sheldon moves with the deliberate pace of a season, marked by the arrival of waterfowl at the nearby reserves and the steady, quiet work of those who call these plains home, far from the restless hum of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ransom County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 1.5 mi, 063° NE
Sheyenne National Grassland (National Grassland) — 4.2 mi, 133° SE · 70k acres
Enderlin Area Veterans Monument (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 297° NW
Pigeon Point Fee (Conservation Area) — 7.1 mi, 145° SE
Hamilton Wills (State Conservation Area) — 8.5 mi, 027° NE
Cass County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 8.5 mi, 337° NW
Sheyenne Springs Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 9.2 mi, 113° SE
Mirror Pool (State Recreation Area) — 9.5 mi, 108° E
Sheyenne Delta Fee (Conservation Area) — 14.3 mi, 155° SE
North Dakota State Forest Service Land (State Resource Management Area) — 18.2 mi, 253° W
Fort Ransom State Park (State Park) — 20.4 mi, 266° W
Sargent County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.9 mi, 213° SW · 646 acres
Omwick Theatre (Cinema) — 33.5 mi, 314° NW
Established 1883 (Monument) — 33.7 mi, 314° NW
Blue Star Memorial (Monument) — 35.0 mi, 058° NE
Roger Maris Museum (Museum) — 36.0 mi, 058° NE
Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.0 mi, 182° S · 14k acres
Angel of Hope (Public Artwork) — 38.8 mi, 059° NE
Immersive Reality Room (Attraction) — 39.1 mi, 054° NE
Minuteman II ICBM (Attraction) — 39.3 mi, 056° NE
Whitetail Trail Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 40.5 mi, 172° S
Wilkin County Museum (Museum) — 48.5 mi, 117° SE
Fire Museum (Museum) — 51.0 mi, 085° E
Marshall County Prayer Rock Museum (Museum) — 56.3 mi, 193° S
Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion (Attraction) — 60.6 mi, 079° E
Frontier Village (Attraction) — 61.0 mi, 291° W
Bison 6 Cinema (Cinema) — 61.7 mi, 290° W
Viking Sword Museum (Museum) — 67.5 mi, 059° NE
Broken Down Dam (Historic Ruins) — 72.8 mi, 106° E
Trowbridge Creek Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 78.0 mi, 084° E

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