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White Earth North Dakota Map

Explore White Earth, 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 White Earth, North Dakota

How to Use This White Earth, North Dakota Map

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

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

Latitude	48.380576
Longitude	-102.773238
Population	100
Density	25.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58794
Area Code	701
County Seat	Stanley
School District	Tioga Public School District 15

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About White Earth, North Dakota

White Earth is a locality in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 100. The population density is 25.8 people per km². White Earth is located at 48.3806°N, 102.7732°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. White Earth is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58794.

White Earth commands a stark, expansive horizon where the prairie sky stretches thin and pale over the shifting contours of the northern plains. It lies 42.1 miles east-northeast of Williston, ND (from Williston, ND: bearing 67°T), and is situated 18.1 miles west-northwest of Stanley. The White Earth River carves a deliberate path through the landscape, its seasonal flow a quiet tether to the undulating grasses and the low, clay-heavy ridges that define the terrain. Four miles to the east, the silhouette of Big Butte rises as a solitary, jagged sentinel above the flat expanse, anchoring a vista that remains dominated by the immense, shifting light of an unclouded dome. Within the sheltered corridors of the nearby White Earth Valley, the earth holds a stillness that persists even when the wind drives hard across the open ground, cooling the air to a crisp, metallic edge that speaks of the coming frost.

White Earth persists as a quiet node of human industry, shaped by the persistent rhythm of the Bakken oil patch and the enduring legacy of the agricultural plains. The economy here is measured in the steady pulse of extraction and the seasonal rotation of crops, a cycle that dictates the pace of daily life as surely as the movement of the sun. While Tioga Dam remains a distant point of repose eight miles away, the immediate surroundings reflect a history of homesteading and resourcefulness, where the architecture of grain silos and metal rigs stands as a testament to the labor required to inhabit such a vast, demanding territory. In White Earth, the character of the place is found in the resilience of those who watch the shadows lengthen across the prairie, finding a singular, austere beauty in the way the dusk turns the dry soil to a deep, bruised violet.

Nearby Outdoor Places

White Earth Valley (State Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 181° S
Mountrail County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 8.9 mi, 358° N
Williams County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 8.9 mi, 276° W
Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.2 mi, 054° NE · 55k acres
Sakakawea Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 15.6 mi, 177° S
Lake Sakakawea (Recreation Area) — 16.2 mi, 187° S
Hofflund (State Conservation Area) — 16.5 mi, 203° SW
Smishek Lake (State Recreation Area) — 16.6 mi, 017° N
Little Missouri National Grassland (National Grassland) — 18.5 mi, 185° S · 1.0M acres
Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge_Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 21.7 mi, 036° NE · 5,522 acres
Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.5 mi, 050° NE · 28k acres
Gn 3059 (Attraction) — 42.3 mi, 248° W
Sloulin Field International Airport (historic) (Historic Ruins) — 42.3 mi, 251° W
Six Shooters Showall (Cinema) — 46.4 mi, 211° SW
Lewis and Clark Trail Museum (Museum) — 54.5 mi, 228° SW
Theodore Roosevelt National Park (National Park) — 57.5 mi, 203° SW · 70k acres
Ryder Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 59.9 mi, 122° SE
Riverbend Overlook (Viewpoint) — 60.2 mi, 208° SW
Ziegler School (Historic Ruins) — 65.6 mi, 140° SE
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 68.2 mi, 097° E
Monument 670A (Attraction) — 77.3 mi, 056° NE
Manitoba - Saskatchewan boundary (Monument) — 77.3 mi, 056° NE
Centre Theatre (Cinema) — 78.8 mi, 235° SW

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