Minot AFB, North Dakota

About Minot AFB

Minot AFB, ND is a small unincorporated community located in northwestern North Dakota.

Minot AFB holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 7.27 square miles.

📰 Minot AFB News Today

• Minot finance Airmen test wartime skills during Exercise Prairie Gold minot.af.mil · Aug 18
• AFGSC Command Team comes North to Minot AFB afgsc.af.mil · Aug 15
• $5B in Construction Planned at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota ConstructConnect News · Apr 20
• Secretary of the Air Force sees ongoing modernization at Minot AFB af.mil · Jul 2
• Task Force 21 hosts Nuclear Triad Symposium in Minot minot.af.mil · May 11

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Minot AFB Unique

• The only place in America named Minot AFB — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• One of the northernmost communities in the lower 48 states.
• Positioned in northwestern North Dakota, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 12 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Minot AFB

• Bud Ebert Park reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

🏫 Schools in Minot AFB

• DAKOTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
• NORTH PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.

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