Bisbee is a city in Towner County, North Dakota, United States.

The town was named after Colonel Andrew Bisbee, a native of Peru, Maine.

[5][6][7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.26 square miles (0.67 km2), all land.

[9] Bisbee was featured in the September 10, 2001 edition of Newsweek, discussing the slow, painful decline of the town since (at that time) even the mayor, Bob Weltin, was preparing to forsake what was left of the town and seek a better life elsewhere.

Things Bisbee had lost over the years, according to the Newsweek article, included movies at Pettsinger's Theater, root-beer floats at Brannon's Drug and Soda Fountain, and groceries at Dick's Red Owl.

At the time of the article, there wasn't a doctor, lawyer, plumber or priest in Bisbee anymore.

At the time of the article, there were only 227 "hearty souls" hanging on for dear life in Bisbee.

46.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 15.4% of families and 13.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.4% of those under the age of eighteen and 10.0% of those 65 or over.