Center is a city in Oliver County, North Dakota, United States.

[6] The city was named from its location near the geographical center of Oliver County.

[8] The town is somewhat notable for the blizzard-related death of Hazel Miner, who would go on to be the subject of a song and memorials.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.46 square miles (1.19 km2), all land.

[9] Southwest of Center, there is a large open air coal mine.

Southeast of Center, at Nelson Lake there is a large power plant.

West of Nelson Lake is situated the Square Butte high-voltage direct current transmission line's static inverter.

Peter Rogerson, a professor of geography at the University at Buffalo in New York, used new scientific methods and the azimuthal equidistant projection to calculate the "geographic center" of the North American continent.

27.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.