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Mercer North Dakota Map

Explore Mercer, North Dakota, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Mercer, North Dakota

How to Use This Mercer, North Dakota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Mercer, North Dakota. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of North Dakota or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Mercer.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Mercer
State	North Dakota (ND)
County	McLean County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	47.490554
Longitude	-100.710969
Population	88
Density	153.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58559
Area Code	701
County Seat	Washburn
School District	Turtle Lake-Mercer Public School District 72

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mclean County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 1.5 mi, 179° S
John E. Williams Nature Preserve Fee (Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 311° NW
Blue Lake (State Recreation Area) — 4.6 mi, 326° NW
Lake Holmes WDA (National Conservation Area) — 7.3 mi, 269° W · 726 acres
Gdu Canal Lakes (Recreation Area) — 8.8 mi, 186° S
Sheridan County Waterfowl Production Area Of Nd (Resource Management Area) — 9.1 mi, 155° SE
Heckers Lake WDA (National Conservation Area) — 10.3 mi, 173° S · 131 acres
Old Johns Lake (State Recreation Area) — 12.8 mi, 130° SE
Charles Schroeder (State Conservation Area) — 13.1 mi, 014° N
Russel Stuart (State Conservation Area) — 13.3 mi, 148° SE
Lake Nettie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.5 mi, 300° NW · 4,848 acres
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center (Museum) — 20.3 mi, 230° SW
Florence Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.3 mi, 127° SE · 2,920 acres
Seamans Overlook (Viewpoint) — 22.1 mi, 233° SW
Scientific Center of North America (Monument) — 35.2 mi, 232° SW
Myron Atkinson and T. Clem Casey Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 43.2 mi, 185° S
David Thompson Historical Monument (Monument) — 43.7 mi, 358° N
AMC CLASSIC Bismarck 8 (Cinema) — 45.3 mi, 184° S
North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum (Museum) — 46.5 mi, 184° S
Archeology & Historic Preservation (Museum) — 46.5 mi, 184° S
Merci Train (Monument) — 46.6 mi, 184° S
Ziegler School (Historic Ruins) — 55.3 mi, 282° W
Salem Sue (Public Artwork) — 55.4 mi, 218° SW
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 59.2 mi, 333° NW
Prairie Village Museum (Museum) — 68.2 mi, 029° NE
Long lake (Attraction) — 77.4 mi, 061° NE

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