Porcupine, North Dakota

About Porcupine

Porcupine is a small unincorporated community in southwestern North Dakota.

Porcupine holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.2 square miles.

📰 Porcupine News Today

• Tribal radio funding flows, but future remains uncertain after clawback of public media money South Dakota Searchlight · Nov 23
• Pine Ridge gets first domestic violence shelter in nearly 20 years ictnews.org · Mar 13
• Fabian Whiteshield Obituary Apr 23, 2026 Gilbertson Funeral Home · Apr 28
• Lewis Casey Bradshaw III Obituary (2026) - Porcupine, SD - Sioux Funeral Home Legacy obituary · Jun 2
• Cop shot Native American man 17 times in 4 seconds; court ruled it was ‘reasonable' tucson.com · Sep 26

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Porcupine Unique

• One of the smallest municipal footprints in the country at just 0.2 sq mi.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in southwestern 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 18 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Porcupine

• Froelich Dam State Game Management Area reviews ★
• Froelich Dam Wildlife Management Area · Nature reserve reviews ★

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

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Porcupine

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