DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in North Dakota, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in North Dakota. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of North Dakota
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Flat, until it is not.
North Dakota tracts are sold by the quarter, and most of the difference between two quarters is water: sloughs, potholes, the alkali low spot that never makes a crop. Out west it becomes badlands relief instead. Neither shows from a section road.
A quarter in Sheridan County renders in the same ten minutes as one in Cass County, and sloughs, potholes and saline ground read plainly from above.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel. Cropped on three sides, two sloughs through the middle, and a gravel section road along the west line.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole North Dakota delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where North Dakota land actually trades.
These are the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any North Dakota county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order a North Dakota parcel.
- Coverage
- Any North Dakota county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Cropland on the Red River valley and across the plains, native grass pasture, prairie potholes and sloughs, and badlands and river breaks in the west.
- Typical uses
- Farmland, pasture and ranch land, hunting and waterfowl, and land held by family operations.
- Reads well from above
- Sloughs and potholes, shelterbelts, section lines and field edges, and the draws and breaks on rougher ground.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the parcel number on the tax record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting a North Dakota tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling North Dakota ground.
Which North Dakota counties can you do?
Any North Dakota county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
Is DirtFlight useful for North Dakota farms, pasture and hunting land?
Cropland on the Red River valley and across the plains, native grass pasture, prairie potholes and sloughs, and badlands and river breaks in the west. Typical uses there: farmland, pasture and ranch land, hunting and waterfowl, and land held by family operations.
Will sloughs and potholes show up?
They will, which is the main reason sellers here order it. Sloughs, potholes, cattail rings and the white alkali edges all read from above, and the contour map shows the closed basins. It shows what the imagery saw on its date, not a wet-year worst case.
Can you cover several quarters in one image?
Yes. Adjoining parcels entered together merge into one boundary, so a farm assembled from six quarters renders as a single outline rather than six separate images.
Which number goes in for a North Dakota parcel?
In North Dakota, the number to look for is the parcel number on the tax record. Enter the county and the APN as it appears on the tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What can a buyer see from above on North Dakota prairie?
Sloughs and potholes, shelterbelts, section lines and field edges, and the draws and breaks on rougher ground. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your North Dakota parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.