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Pick City North Dakota Map

Explore Pick City, 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 Pick City, North Dakota

How to Use This Pick City, North Dakota Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Pick City, 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 Pick City.

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	Pick City
State	North Dakota (ND)
County	Mercer County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/North_Dakota/Beulah)

Latitude	47.511389
Longitude	-101.453774
Population	123
Density	251.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	58545
Area Code	701
County Seat	Stanton
School District	Underwood Public School District 8

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lake Sakakawea State Park (State Park) — 0.1 mi, 086° E
Sakakawea Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 0.1 mi, 091° E
Lake Sakakawea (Recreation Area) — 0.5 mi, 337° NW
Riverdale (State Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 160° S
Wolf Creek-mallard Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 078° E
Fort Stevenson State Park (State Park) — 5.3 mi, 014° N
Harmony Lake (State Recreation Area) — 12.0 mi, 224° SW
Mclean County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 15.5 mi, 010° N
Lake Nettie National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.3 mi, 070° E · 4,848 acres
Arroda Lake (State Recreation Area) — 21.5 mi, 152° SE
Ziegler School (Historic Ruins) — 21.7 mi, 296° NW
Seamans Overlook (Viewpoint) — 22.6 mi, 131° SE
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center (Museum) — 24.1 mi, 127° SE
Scientific Center of North America (Monument) — 24.2 mi, 163° S
Lake Holmes WDA (National Conservation Area) — 25.8 mi, 098° E · 726 acres
Ryder Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 29.9 mi, 340° N
Mclean National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 30.4 mi, 311° NW · 684 acres
Salem Sue (Public Artwork) — 45.5 mi, 178° S
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 51.5 mi, 008° N
David Thompson Historical Monument (Monument) — 53.4 mi, 037° NE
Myron Atkinson and T. Clem Casey Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 54.4 mi, 145° SE
AMC CLASSIC Bismarck 8 (Cinema) — 56.4 mi, 146° SE
North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum (Museum) — 57.3 mi, 146° SE
Archeology & Historic Preservation (Museum) — 57.3 mi, 146° SE
Griffon Theaters (Cinema) — 75.7 mi, 237° SW

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