Mercer North Dakota Map

About Mercer, North Dakota

Mercer is a locality in McLean County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 88. The population density is 153.0 people per km². Mercer is located at 47.4906°N, 100.7110°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mercer is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58559.

Mercer endures as a quiet outpost where the immense, pale vault of the sky presses down upon the vast, treeless expanse of the North Dakota prairie. It lies 46.6 miles north of Mandan, ND (from Mandan, ND: bearing 10°T), and is situated 47.3 miles north of Bismarck. The land here does not offer dramatic verticality, yet the earth swells in long, tectonic breaths, forming the faint rise of the Prophets Mountains five miles to the west. A profound stillness settles over the grass at dusk, when the light turns the color of ripening wheat and the shadows of fence posts stretch into obsidian needles across the fields. Only two miles away, the quiet surface of Brush Lake catches the last amber glare of the day, a mirror for the migrating geese that descend toward the nearby Mclean County Waterfowl Production Area to rest amidst the reeds.

Agriculture dictates the slow, seasonal pulse of life in Mercer, where the economy remains tethered to the stubborn fertility of the soil and the endurance of those who work it. Local history is etched into the weathered siding of grain elevators and the straight, uncompromising lines of roads that bisect the plains toward the McClusky Canal ten miles to the east. People here move with a deliberate economy of motion, shaped by winters that scour the horizon clean and summers that shimmer with heat and the promise of a harvest. Even as the modern world trends toward the frantic, Mercer maintains a stubborn, grounded dignity, finding its purpose in the rhythmic cycle of planting and reaping that has defined this expanse since the first homesteaders broke the sod.

About This Mercer Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mercer, North Dakota. Coordinates: 47.490554, -100.710969. 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 Mercer includes the ZIP code (58559), telephone area code (701), county seat of McLean County (Washburn), and school district assignment (Turtle Lake-Mercer Public School District 72).

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.