Blacktail, ND

Blacktail is an unincorporated community and census-designated place built around Blacktail Lake in Williams County, North Dakota, United States. The 2020 census counted 61 residents. Blacktail was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in northwestern Williams County, in the north-central part of Blacktail Township. Williston High School is the zoned high school. A newcomer can read Blacktail through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Blacktail comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Blacktail consists of residences built on the shore of Blacktail Lake, a small reservoir built on Blacktail Creek, a southeast-flowing tributary of the Little Muddy River, which flows south to the Missouri River at Williston, 25 miles south of Blacktail.