Pick City North Dakota Map

About Pick City, North Dakota

Pick City is a locality in Mercer County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 123. The population density is 251.3 people per km². Pick City is located at 47.5114°N, 101.4538°W. It observes the Central Time (America/North_Dakota/Beulah) timezone. Pick City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 58545.

Pick City emerges from the expansive prairie as a quiet sentinel overlooking the vast, man-made expanse of Lake Sakakawea. It lies 50.4 miles south of Minot, ND (from Minot, ND: bearing 188°T), and is situated 16.9 miles north-northeast of Hazen. The land here does not rise in dramatic peaks, but instead stretches in wide, rhythmic swells of earth that catch the low, honeyed light of late afternoon, casting long shadows across the dry grasses. To the west, the horizon holds the faint, jagged suggestion of Blue Hill, a distant anchor in a landscape defined by an enormous, unobstructed sky. The air carries a singular sharpness, clean and unburdened, while the proximity to Lake Sakakawea State Park provides a subtle transition from the manicured edges of the settlement to the wilder, wind-swept margins of the water.

Pick City remains a byproduct of mid-century ambition, anchored by the engineering legacy that reshaped this river valley into the reservoir it is today. While the local economy is colored by the rhythmic pulse of regional energy work and the seasonal demands of agriculture, the pace of life remains tethered to the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons. Four miles away, the quiet passage of Aggie Brown Coulee serves as a modest reminder of the hydrology that once dictated the movement of people across these plains. There is a specific, enduring stillness here, an atmosphere where the primary sound is the wind moving through the brush, marking a place that exists not for spectacle, but for the steady, unadorned business of living on the high northern plains.

About This Pick City Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pick City, North Dakota. Coordinates: 47.511389, -101.453774. 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 Pick City includes the ZIP code (58545), telephone area code (701), county seat of Mercer County (Stanton), and school district assignment (Underwood Public School District 8).

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.