Explore St. John, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for St. John, 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 St. John.
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 | St. John |
| State | North Dakota (ND) |
| County | Rolette County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 48.944452 |
| Longitude | -99.710974 |
| Population | 322 |
| Density | 281.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 58369 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| County Seat | Rolla |
| School District | St. John Public School District 3 |
St. John emerges from the expansive northern prairie as a quiet congregation of structures framed by the immense, pale vault of the sky. It lies 87.6 miles northeast of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 55°T), and is situated 34.3 miles east-northeast of Bottineau. The landscape here is defined by a subtle geometry of earth and wind, where the flat horizon is periodically interrupted by the thick, tangled brush of the nearby Wakopa and the muted, earthy depressions that hold the runoff of a long winter. Two miles to the west, the modest channel of Gimby Creek carves a thin, seasonal vein through the soil, while Belcourt Lake lies four miles distant, its surface often reflecting the stark, colorless clarity of the high-plains air. Even at a distance of twenty-three miles, the presence of Butte Saint Paul provides a necessary anchor for the eye, a singular rise that disrupts the otherwise level continuity of the terrain.
St. John maintains a character forged by the persistent demands of agricultural life and the enduring influence of the surrounding plains. The local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the seasonal shifts of the land, reflecting a history of settlement that prioritized resilience over ornamentation. Life in St. John moves with a deliberate, measured pace, dictated by the arrival of frost or the sudden, golden heat of midsummer. The social fiber of the place is woven from the shared experience of enduring these open, unsheltered spaces, creating a quiet solidarity among those who dwell where the horizon is so wide it seems to pull the very thoughts from one’s mind.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. John, North Dakota. Coordinates: 48.944452, -99.710974. 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 St. John includes the ZIP code (58369), telephone area code (701), county seat of Rolette County (Rolla), and school district assignment (St. John Public School District 3).
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. |