About Our City

Mercer, North Dakota celebrated its Centennial in the year 2005.

The Celebration took place on July 1-3, 2005. The neighboring cities of McClusky and Turtle Lake held their Centennial Celebrations during the same year.

McClusky held their celebration on July 8-10, 2005 and Turtle Lake will held theirs on July 15-17, 2005.

All three villages were organized when the railroad was extended from Carrington in 1905.

(Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Mercer is a city in McLean County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 88 at the 2020 census.^[3]

Mercer was founded in 1905 along a now-abandoned branch line of the Northern Pacific Railway extending from Carrington to Turtle Lake. The name comes from William Henry Harrison Mercer, a well known rancher in the Missouri River Valley for many years and for whom Mercer County is also named.

The city of Mercer lies on North Dakota Highway 200 between Underwood and McClusky.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.23 square miles (0.60 km²), of which 0.22 square miles (0.57 km²) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km²) is water.

Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site, in or near Mercer, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.