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Moffit, North Dakota
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 46°40′38″N 100°17′28″W / 46.67722°N 100.29111°W / 46.67722; -100.29111
Country	United States
State	North Dakota
County	Burleigh
Elevation	1,759 ft (536 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes	58560
Area code	701
GNIS feature ID	1030264

Moffit is an unincorporated rural hamlet in Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States. It lies along US 83, 10 miles south of Sterling. The population in 2017 was estimated to be less than 30.

The post office at Moffit has been in operation since 1906. The community's name honors a family of settlers. In the early 2010s one of the last business buildings left on main street was stripped and torn down for unknown reasons. There is also another building on main street of unknown origin that, in 2017, the front was cut into and it was turned into a storage building.

References

1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Moffit, North Dakota
2. "Burleigh County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
3. Federal Writers' Project (1938). North Dakota, a Guide to the Northern Prairie State. WPA. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-62376-033-5.

External links

• Moffit, North Dakota, 75 years, 1905-1980 from the Digital Horizons website

v t e Municipalities and communities of Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States
County seat: Bismarck
Cities	Bismarck Lincoln Regan Wilton‡ Wing
Townships	Apple Creek Boyd Canfield Christiania Clear Lake Crofte Cromwell Driscoll Ecklund Estherville Florence Lake Francis Ghylin Gibbs Glenview Grass Lake Harriet-Lien Hay Creek Hazel Grove Logan Long Lake McKenzie Menoken Missouri Morton Naughton Painted Woods Richmond Rock Hill Schrunk Sibley Butte Steiber Sterling Taft Telfer Thelma Trygg Wild Rose Wilson Wing
Unorganized territories	Burnt Creek-Riverview Lincoln-Fort Rice Lyman Phoenix
CDPs	Apple Valley Driscoll Menoken
Other communities	Baldwin McKenzie Moffit Sterling
Ghost town	Arena
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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v t e Bismarck–Mandan Metropolitan Area (ND)
Counties	Burleigh Morton Oliver
Core cities	Bismarck Mandan
Surrounding areas	Almont Baldwin Breien Center Driscoll Fallon Flasher Fort Rice Glen Ullin Hannover Harmon Hebron Hensler Huff Lincoln McKenzie Menoken Moffit New Salem Regan Saint Anthony Sanger Sims Sterling Wilton Wing

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