Hazen North Dakota Map

About Hazen, North Dakota

Hazen is a locality in Mercer County, North Dakota, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,281. The population density is 663.7 people per km². Hazen is located at 47.2944°N, 101.6227°W. It observes the Central Time (America/North_Dakota/Beulah) timezone. Hazen is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58545.

Hazen anchors itself upon the vast, open prairie of North Dakota, where the horizon stretches into a wide, pale expanse that swallows the sun each evening in a slow, amber bruise. It lies 47.3 miles northwest of Mandan, ND (from Mandan, ND: bearing 313°T), and is situated 7.6 miles east-northeast of Beulah. The land here is defined by its quiet, persistent flatness, interrupted only by the subtle depression of the Williston Basin which colors the earth in shades of ochre and deep, mineral-rich brown. Antelope Creek carves a thin, meandering silver thread through the grasses just a mile away, its banks providing a brief reprieve of willow and scrub for the local deer. On clear days, the distant silhouette of London Bridge rises against the sky like a jagged, ink-drawn spine, serving as a silent sentinel over the plains. The air carries the scent of dry earth and impending weather, a sharpness that reminds those who walk these fields of the sheer, unyielding scale of the northern plains.

Economic life in Hazen remains tethered to the deep, lignite-heavy geology that defines the region, with the North Beulah Mine serving as a primary pulse for local industry. The town functions with a pragmatic, unadorned efficiency, its streets organized around the steady rhythm of those who extract energy from the dark seams beneath the soil. While Lake Sakakawea waits fourteen miles away, holding its immense, still volume of water in a basin of ancient stone, the people of Hazen look more often toward the horizon where the coal-fired plants and the vast, wind-swept fields meet. There is a particular, austere beauty in the way the light catches the metallic grain elevators at dusk, turning galvanized steel into shimmering gold. Life here is measured not by the accumulation of noise, but by the endurance of the land and the quiet, collective labor that keeps the community moving through the long, bright stretches of the season.

About This Hazen Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hazen, North Dakota. Coordinates: 47.294448, -101.622665. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Hazen includes the ZIP code (58545), telephone area code (701), county seat of Mercer County (Stanton), and school district assignment (Hazen Public School District 3).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.