Front Plate Required: Yes
Area Codes: 701
License Plates:
Windshield Stickers:
Road and Highway Signs:
County Roads:
Highways:
Highway Adoption:
None
Historical:
None
North Dakota is a very flat state, with rolling hills from one end to the other and snow coverage on the east side. The blue & white standard license plate can look like the Wyoming plate, but the two states have very different terrain.
Green rolling hills on the west side
Snow coverage on the east side
Standard license plate
It uses the single statewide area code, 701, and the advertising company "Dakota" can be found both here and in Montana. Many important signs and bollards have one or more ring structures on the post, and state-owned stop signs have a sticker with a number on the back. It is also the only state that marks county roads with "Cty" on street signs, but it's not very common.
701 Area Code
Dakota company billboards
White or yellow ring markers
Number sticker on stop sign
County road marked "Cty"
North Dakota has a lot of small towns with wide main roads that may or may not be marked with road lines. Some of the major intersections use yellow posts, and traffic lights have one or two stiff arms leading to a curved lamp on top. Dickinson, in particular, has a lot of intersections with yellow posts.
Small towns with wide roads
Major intersections marked yellow
Traffic signal and lamp
Interstates in North Dakota are marked by white and yellow diamond bollards. Guardrails are marked by an orange bollard with a yellow flag at the start and an orange bollard with a white flag at the end.
Diamond bollard
Guardrail start
Guardrail end
The standard North Dakota license plate looks similar to one of the two Nevada standard plates.
North Dakota
Black tipped drainage bollards are also used in Minnesota and Wisconsin, though Wisconsin generally uses plastic instead of metal.
Black tipped drainage bollard
Utah has similar orange bollards, but it's not used to mark guardrails.
North Dakota
Alaska and Indiana also put numbered stickers behind stop signs.
Yellow poles at intersections can also be found in several other states, notably Iowa.
Williston, ND
Mason City, IA