Tolley North Dakota Map

About Tolley, North Dakota

Tolley is a locality in Renville County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 41. The population density is 126.6 people per km². Tolley is located at 48.7289°N, 101.8274°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tolley is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58787.

Tolley stretches across the expansive, high-latitude prairie where the horizon line acts as a taut wire pulling the sky tight against the earth. It lies 42.0 miles northwest of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 325°T), and is situated 31.3 miles northwest of Minot AFB. The landscape is defined by the steady, unyielding patience of the plains, where the Souris River winds through the lowlands just three miles away, carving a path of subtle green against the tawny grasses. To the northwest, the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge offers a sanctuary of marsh and meadow, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Deltlot Hill marks the limit of the visible world. When the sun begins its long, slanted descent, the light catches the dried stalks of wheat and wild hay, turning the entire expanse into a sea of burnished copper that seems to vibrate with the sheer scale of the North Dakota wind.

Tolley emerged from the expansion of the rail lines that once pulsed through the grain-heavy heart of the state, defining an economy rooted in the stubborn vitality of the soil. The rhythm of daily life here remains tethered to the seasonal demands of the harvest, echoing the quiet industry of generations who learned to thrive in the shadow of Lake Darling. Beyond the silos and the weathered grain elevators that serve as the vertical anchors of the landscape, the persistence of the people is written in the maintenance of their homesteads and the enduring silence of the empty, enormous sky. It is a place where the history of the plains is not a matter of plaques or monuments, but a lived experience of endurance, defined by the way the frost retreats from the fields and the way the shadows lengthen across the quiet, straight roads.

About This Tolley Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tolley, North Dakota. Coordinates: 48.728912, -101.827385. 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 Tolley includes the ZIP code (58787), telephone area code (701), county seat of Renville County (Mohall), and school district assignment (Mohall-Lansford-Sherwood Public School District 1).

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.