Stampriet is located 64 km (40 mi) north-east of Mariental and 1,177 m (3,862 ft) above sea level, in a barren area on the upper reaches of the Auob River where humans and animals alike depend on borehole water.

Stampriet is home to Privatskool Elnatan, founded in April 1992, which has 370 students in grades 1 through 12 and 61 staff.

[6] In the 2020 local authority election "serious procedural errors" were discovered for the Stampriet village council.

Some voters had been handed ballot papers without being registered as living in the village, as is required for the local authority election.

[7] The re-run was conducted on 26 February 2021 and won by the newly formed Landless People's Movement (LPM).