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Stanley North Dakota Map

Explore Stanley, 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 Stanley, North Dakota

How to Use This Stanley, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	48.317241
Longitude	-102.390452
Population	2,321
Density	199.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58784
Area Code	701
County Seat	Stanley
School District	Stanley Public School District 2

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About Stanley, North Dakota

Stanley is a locality in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,321. The population density is 199.9 people per km². Stanley is located at 48.3172°N, 102.3905°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Stanley is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58784.

Stanley occupies a vast, open expanse where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun each evening, leaving the prairie in a wash of bruised purple and gold. It lies 50.7 miles west of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 277°T), and is situated 23.7 miles north of New Town. The land here is defined by its unrelenting flatness, punctuated only by the subtle depression of the Little Knife River as it winds through the grass two miles away. Beyond the immediate reach of town, the terrain shifts into the quiet, dry solitude of the high plains, where the sky feels heavy and immense. To the south, the Mountrail County Waterfowl Production Area offers a sanctuary for migratory birds, its wetlands providing a rare, concentrated stillness in an otherwise sprawling landscape. On clear days, the silhouette of Mosquito Butte remains a distant, jagged memory on the far edge of the world, reminding travelers that the earth here holds its own steady, ancient rhythm.

Stanley serves as a vital anchor within the Bakken oil patch, a legacy of extraction that has fundamentally altered the economy and pulse of the region. Where the history of the plains was once written in wheat fields and the long, slow labor of dryland farming, the current pace of life is marked by the steady hum of industry and the persistent, metallic clatter of heavy machinery. Despite this shift toward energy production, the quiet traditions of the northern plains persist, and residents often seek the cooling respite of Cottonwood Lake when the summer heat presses down on the fields. Life in Stanley moves with the seasons, from the biting, crystalline silence of winter to the frenetic, dust-choked activity of harvest and drilling, creating a unique texture of existence where the modern world of fuel and the old world of the soil exist side by side.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mountrail County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 2.9 mi, 037° NE
Palermo (State Conservation Area) — 6.2 mi, 086° E
Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.2 mi, 342° N · 55k acres
Shell Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.0 mi, 126° SE · 1,572 acres
Burke County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 16.0 mi, 006° N
White Earth Valley (State Conservation Area) — 17.0 mi, 276° W
Sakakawea Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 20.2 mi, 198° S
Lake Sakakawea (Recreation Area) — 21.6 mi, 205° SW
Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 21.9 mi, 355° N · 5,522 acres
Little Missouri National Grassland (National Grassland) — 23.5 mi, 211° SW · 1.0M acres
Ryder Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 43.1 mi, 130° SE
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 50.3 mi, 095° E
Ziegler School (Historic Ruins) — 52.2 mi, 153° SE
Six Shooters Showall (Cinema) — 54.5 mi, 229° SW
Gn 3059 (Attraction) — 57.9 mi, 258° W
Sloulin Field International Airport (historic) (Historic Ruins) — 58.3 mi, 261° W
Theodore Roosevelt National Park (National Park) — 63.1 mi, 220° SW · 70k acres
Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 63.5 mi, 220° SW · 30k acres
Lewis and Clark Trail Museum (Museum) — 66.3 mi, 241° SW
Monument 670A (Attraction) — 66.5 mi, 044° NE
Manitoba - Saskatchewan boundary (Monument) — 66.5 mi, 044° NE
Riverbend Overlook (Viewpoint) — 67.0 mi, 223° SW
David Thompson Historical Monument (Monument) — 76.7 mi, 099° E

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