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Fossil collection site in the Deadwood, Billings County, North Dakota. Environment: lagoonal. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Use this page as your North Dakota rockhounding map — North Dakota has 73 rockhounding sites in our directory, including 5 quartz & crystals, 13 agate & jasper, 1 gemstones, 47 fossils, 7 other. Use rockhounding sites near me for live distance sorting or browse by city.
By specimen type: Quartz & Crystals (5) · Agate & Jasper (13) · Fossils (47) · Other (7)
Our North Dakota rockhounding map lists 73 cataloged sites with GPS, fees, and specimen types at /states/north-dakota/. Filter by type or use near-me GPS sorting from your location.
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Fossil collection site in the Deadwood, Billings County, North Dakota. Environment: lagoonal. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, Morton County, North Dakota. Environment: lacustrine indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Stony Mountain, North Dakota. Environment: deep subtidal indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Bismark is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Silicified wood, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Slope, Grant County, North Dakota. Environment: terrestrial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Broste Rock Museum is a documented rockhounding destination in ND. Collectors visit for mixed minerals and rocks and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Burning Coal Vein is a documented rockhounding destination in ND. Collectors visit for mixed minerals and rocks and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Cannonball River is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Silicified wood, Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Crowley Quarry is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Gem Flint. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Dickinson is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Glacial erratics of the Sheyenne River valley include granite boulders and transported agates in Sheyenne State Forest.
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Hettinger is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Agatized wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Hettinger County is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Silicified wood, Jasper, Selenite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Killdeer is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Knife River Flint. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Killdeer Mountain area badlands and draws in western North Dakota yield agate and petrified wood on permitted lands.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: crevasse splay. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: crevasse splay. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Bowman County, North Dakota. Environment: wet floodplain. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Bowman County, North Dakota. Environment: wet floodplain. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Bowman County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Bowman County, North Dakota. Environment: crevasse splay. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fine channel fill. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: wet floodplain. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Lisbon is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Quartz gemstones, Teredo petrified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Little Missouri River is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Montana Moss Agate, Jasper, Agatized wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Mandan is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Chert, Teredo petrified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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McKenzie County is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Montana Moss Agate, Jasper, Silicified wood. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Medora is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Silicified wood, Concretions. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park badlands display petrified wood stumps; collecting banned in park but region has specimens on private land.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Morton County, North Dakota. Environment: estuary/bay. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: "channel". Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Petrified Log & Stumps at Capitol grounds is a documented rockhounding destination in ND. Collectors visit for petrified wood, agate and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: "channel". Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Richardton is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Agatized wood, Jasper, Selenite crystals. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Sheyenne River is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Quartz gemstones, Petrified wood, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Souris River is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Quartz gemstones, Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Stanley is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Glauberite, Halite, Thenardite. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Bowman County, North Dakota. Environment: terrestrial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Tappen is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Teredo Petrified Wood is a documented rockhounding destination in ND. Collectors visit for fossils, trilobites, dinosaur bone and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Theo Roosevelt NP - Cannonball Concretions is a documented rockhounding destination in ND. Collectors visit for mixed minerals and rocks and related material. Access rules and land ownership vary — confirm current status with the managing agency or landowner before collecting.
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Tongue River is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Calcite crystals, Fossils. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Turtle Mountain is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Quartz gemstones, Agate, Chalcedony. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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Glacial deposits of the Turtle Mountains along the Manitoba border carry agate and jasper in forest road cuts and beaches.
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Fossil collection site in the Hell Creek, Slope County, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, McLean County, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union?, Oliver County, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, Powell County, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Fossil collection site in the Fort Union, Ward County, North Dakota. Environment: fluvial indet.. Source: Paleobiology Database (PBDB), CC BY 4.0.
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Williams County is a documented mineral occurrence near ND. Reported specimens include Montana Moss Agate, Red Jasper, Yellow Jasper. Verify land access and collecting rules before visiting.
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