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St. Thomas North Dakota Map

Explore St. Thomas, 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 St. Thomas, North Dakota

How to Use This St. Thomas, North Dakota Map

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

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.

CitySt. Thomas
StateNorth Dakota (ND)
CountyPembina County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude48.619156
Longitude-97.44647
Population323
Density122.9 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code58276
Area Code701
County SeatCavalier
School DistrictGrafton Public School District 18

About St. Thomas, North Dakota

St. Thomas is a locality in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 323. The population density is 122.9 people per km². St. Thomas is located at 48.6192°N, 97.4465°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. St. Thomas is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58276.

St. Thomas occupies a stretch of the Red River Valley where the earth flattens into a vast, unwavering horizon that dictates the scale of every human endeavor. It lies 51.6 miles north-northwest of Grand Forks, ND (from Grand Forks, ND: bearing 339°T), and is situated 14.4 miles north of Grafton. The landscape here is defined by a rigorous, geometric simplicity, where the immense weight of the sky presses down upon the dark, fertile loam of the prairie. Moisture gathers in the low-lying reaches of Willow Creek, carving a subtle, winding path through the soil three miles away, while the distant, jagged silhouette of Horgan Ridge occasionally marks the western edge of the world under the bruising purple light of dusk. The air carries a sharp, clean clarity that intensifies as the shadows lengthen, turning the fields into a deep, silent expanse of monochrome.

St. Thomas emerged from the relentless expansion of the railroad, which served as the primary artery for grain and commerce, anchoring the rhythm of life to the cycles of the harvest. Today, the local economy remains tethered to the productivity of the soil, with elevators acting as the quiet, towering sentinels of a community built on the resilience of dryland farming. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the geography yields to the wider basin of The Coulee, providing a stark contrast to the cultivated rows that define the surrounding acreage. For those seeking the stillness of the natural world, the North Salt Lake offers a respite eight miles distant, a place where the water mirrors the shifting clouds and the land remains largely untroubled by the mechanical hum of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • North Salt Lake (State Recreation Area) — 7.6 mi, 136° SE
  • North Dakota State Forest Service Land (State Resource Management Area) — 8.2 mi, 087° E
  • Pembina County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 10.6 mi, 048° NE
  • Icelandic State Park (State Park) — 16.5 mi, 309° NW
  • Joliet Ferry (State Conservation Area) — 20.7 mi, 142° SE
  • Jay V. Wessels (State Conservation Area) — 21.3 mi, 306° NW
  • Holman (State Recreation Area) — 22.7 mi, 314° NW
  • Survivor's Flower Bed (Monument) — 24.6 mi, 087° E
  • Ardoch National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.3 mi, 167° S · 632 acres
  • Minn-Dak Mural (Public Artwork) — 25.3 mi, 097° E
  • Pembina State Museum (Monument) — 26.0 mi, 020° N
  • Anderson/Bagaas Burial (Monument) — 35.4 mi, 110° E
  • Kittson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 36.8 mi, 077° E
  • Lake Bronson State Park (State Park) — 37.5 mi, 079° E
  • Karlstad Pavilion (Theatre) — 42.3 mi, 094° E
  • Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.3 mi, 060° NE · 12k acres
  • Till Hill (Viewpoint) — 47.1 mi, 183° S
  • Heritage Village (Museum) — 50.6 mi, 157° SE
  • Leonard Hall Geology Museum (Museum) — 51.4 mi, 160° S
  • River Cinema 15 (Cinema) — 51.5 mi, 158° S
  • Empire Theatre (Theatre) — 51.7 mi, 158° S
  • Viking Farmer Museam (Museum) — 55.2 mi, 120° SE
  • Sweetlight Gallery (Gallery) — 70.0 mi, 146° SE
  • Roseau County Museum (Museum) — 78.4 mi, 078° E

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About This St. Thomas Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Thomas, North Dakota. Coordinates: 48.619156, -97.44647. 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. Thomas includes the ZIP code (58276), telephone area code (701), county seat of Pembina County (Cavalier), and school district assignment (Grafton Public School District 18).

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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.