It has a post office with the ZIP code of 59547,[4] and a public school serving grades PK through 8.

There is also a bar; the store and bank are closed and abandoned, as are two grain elevators and other business buildings.

Sometime around 1887, Great Northern Railway officials named one of their main line sidings Zurich, for the city in Switzerland.

In 1923, a population increase was occasioned by the arrival of Volga Germans seeking employment in sugar beet farming.

[8] Amtrak’s Empire Builder, which operates between Seattle/Portland and Chicago, passes through the town on BNSF tracks, but makes no stop.