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97 unusual facts about North Dakota


Advance Township, Pembina County, North Dakota

Backoo, a town of approximately 50 people northwest of Cavalier, was the most prominent population center in the township.

Alameda Dam

It provides flood protection and irrigation for this area of Saskatchewan, along with protection for Minot, North Dakota.

American Herro

The documentary covers Herro's early childhood as a Kurdish-Muslim refugee from Iraq as she fled with her family from Iraqi Kurdistan while under Saddam Hussein's regime to Minot, North Dakota, as well as her academic success and successful career as a diplomat stationed in Bosnia, Turkey, Iraq, and elsewhere.

Andrew H. Burke

He next became a cashier of the First National Bank of Casselton and then, for six years, the Treasurer of Cass County.

Antler, North Dakota

Antler is located in Antler Township along the United States border with Canada.

Arthur LeSueur

In 1880, Arthur left the family farm and moved to Arvilla, North Dakota, where he worked as a wood-cutter in the winter months and a grain thresher during the harvest season.

Arthur O. Beyer

His funeral was held in Valley City, North Dakota, and he was buried in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in his hometown of St. Ansgar, Iowa.

He moved to rural Buffalo, North Dakota, and worked as a farm hand after returning from the war.

Arthur Pember

Mr. Pember died on 3 April 1886 in LaMoure, North Dakota according to an obituary note in the 4 April 1886 edition of the New York Times.

Arvilla

Arvilla, North Dakota, a community in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, in the United States

Arvilla, North Dakota

Arvilla (also Orange) is an unincorporated community in central Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States.

Berta E. Baker

The Bakers moved to North Dakota in the spring of 1907 and settled on a farm in Renville County.

Brandon Jovanovich

Jovanovich excelled in sports and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Bugles in the Afternoon

When they reach Bismarck in the Dakota territory, Kern is welcomed to join the 7th Cavalry by an old friend, Capt. Myles Moylan, and assigned the rank of sergeant.

Cannonball River

It is joined by Cedar Creek approximately 15 mi (24 km) southwest of Shields and flows northeast, past Shields, forming the northern border of Sioux County and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Cavendish Farms

In 2001 the company purchased a french fry processing plant in Jamestown, North Dakota.

Cecilia Parker

Bismarck, North Dakota Tribune, Fifth Hardy Family Picture Delightful, Friday, December 2, 1938, Page 8.

Charles W. Lindberg

Lindberg was a native of Grand Forks, North Dakota when he enlisted in the Marine Corps shortly after the Japanese Navy attack on Pearl Harbor.

CKND-DT

In 1981, KCND became the call letters for KCND-FM, the first Prairie Public Radio (now North Dakota Public Radio) station in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Cream of Wheat

It was first manufactured in the United States in 1893 by wheat millers in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Curse of LaBonte

A secondary "curse", if interpreted in this way, is that a North Dakotan rink did not represent the United States again in the World Curling Championships until 1997, when Craig Disher of Langdon represented the United States.

Dave St. Peter

Dave St. Peter (born January 3, 1967 in Bismarck, North Dakota) has served as president of the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball since 2002.

Daytona Aircraft D-200

It was the first demonstrated in a line of aircraft intended to be built in Fargo, North Dakota.

Dorothy Adams

Dorothy Adams (January 8, 1900; Hannah, North Dakota – March 16, 1988; Woodland Hills, California) was an American character actress.

Edward L. Garden

Educated at the Decorah Institute in Decorah, Iowa, he married and moved to Bottineau County in North Dakota in 1899, where he operated hardware and furniture stores in Landa, Lansford, and Souris.

Ernest D. Nelson

He farmed in Golden Valley County, North Dakota for 30 years during his lifetime, and was a veteran of World War I.

Fort Berthold Community College

The Fort Berthold Community College (FBCC) is a tribally controlled college chartered by the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation headquarters at New Town, North Dakota.

Gainsborough, Saskatchewan

Antler is the closest border crossing station between Canada and the US, and like most small posts on the frontier it is closed overnight.

Geography of North Dakota

The valley contains the lowest point in North Dakota which is the Red River at Pembina, at 750 feet (230 m) above sea level.

George A. Lundberg

George Andrew Lundberg (born October 3, 1895 in Fairdale, North Dakota; died April 14, 1966 in Seattle, Washington) was an American sociologist.

George H. Walsh

He also served in the North Dakota House of Representatives and was speaker When the territorial legislature authorized a new county in 1881, they named it Walsh County in his honor.

George H. Walsh (November 24, 1868–April 2, 1913) was an American newspaper editor and publisher from Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Great River Energy

:*Spiritwood Station - Located near Spiritwood, North Dakota (Completed in 2012 and test-fired only. Spiritwood is not currently producing electricity.)

Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland

In 1929 he moved to Fargo, North Dakota where he operated a shop in a few neighbouring buildings until he established the Helland Music Company on the third floor of a building on Broadway.

Hankinson

Hankinson, North Dakota, a city in Richland County, North Dakota, United States

Hans Andersen Foss

A lifelong proponent of the temperance movement and the Populist Party, Foss edited several temperance publications and from 1888 to 1893 served as editor for the Norwegian language newspaper Normanden in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Henry J. Stinger

Due to district changes, his district later included Hettinger and Sioux Counties.

Henry Linde

He came to Plaza, North Dakota in July 1906 and engaged in the practice of law.

I-94 derecho

Williston and Minot reported winds up to 70 mph (110 km/h).

Icelandic State Park

Icelandic State Park is a state park located in Akra Township, Pembina County, North Dakota.

ICON A5

On August 6, 2012, Icon announced that Cirrus Aircraft would produce composite airframe components for the A5 at its Grand Forks, North Dakota facility.

Jack Towers

His first notable work was when, as young extension service employee, he and fellow jazz aficionado Richard Burris made an amateur live recording of Duke Ellington and His Orchestra at a concert in Fargo, North Dakota in 1940.

Jackie Lockhart

She started in the buzzing atmosphere that enveloped the Scottish Championships in Glasgow, where her team - largely inexperienced at the highest level apart from herself at skip - overcame Rhona Martin's rink in a three-match final to claim the right to represent Scotland at the World Championships in Bismarck, North Dakota, ahead of the newly-famed Olympic gold medallists.

James M. McPherson

Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 1958 (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1963.

Johan Bojer

In 1923, Bojer journeyed to Litchville, North Dakota, to research the lives of the Norwegian immigrants who had settled there.

John Clark Salyer II

In 1966, the Fish and Wildlife Service renamed the Lower Souris National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota as the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge to honor his legacy of contributions to the preservation of America's wildlife.

John D. McKenzie

He was born in Gilby, North Dakota, the son of Alexander McKenzie and Isabella Douglas.

John M. Budd

From November, 1945, to May, 1947, Budd was assistant general manager for Lines East of Williston, North Dakota, on the Great Northern.

Leal, North Dakota

Leal incorporated as a village in 1917 from part of Edna Township.

Lewis A. Pick

Pick City, North Dakota located by the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River was founded in 1946 and named for him.

Long Lake Wetland Management District

Headquarters for the Wetland Management District is located in the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge office near Moffit, North Dakota, which is about 35 miles southeast of Bismarck.

Maple Bay, Minnesota

The nearby lake is a summer resort and playground for residents of Crookston, Minnesota, Grand Forks, North Dakota and other nearby communities, and also offers excellent ice fishing.

Maple Valley Public School District

The Maple Valley Public School District is a public school district in Barnes and Cass counties in the U.S. state of North Dakota, based in Tower City, North Dakota.

Martynas Andriuškevičius

On December 21, as a member of the NBA Development League's Dakota Wizards, Andriuškevičius sustained a serious head injury when he was punched by teammate Awvee Storey in an attack during practice in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Mayville State University

Mayville State University (MSU or MaSU) is an institution of higher learning in Mayville, North Dakota, United States, part of the North Dakota University System.

Michael Halstenson

Halstenson studied music performance and composition at the University of North Dakota, Webster College, and the University of Minnesota.

Minnesota Building

The building's architect, Charles H. Hausler, has several other buildings listed on the NRHP: St. Anthony Park Branch Library, Arlington Hills Library, Riverview Branch Library, also in Ramsey County, Minnesota, as well as the St. Mary's Church Non-Contiguous Historic District in Hague, North Dakota.

Minnesota State Highway 175

Highway 175 serves as an east–west route between Lake Bronson, Hallock, the Red River, and Joliette, ND.

More Than I Can Say

After Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash in February 1959, a then-teenaged Vee was one of a group of local musicians recruited to play at the next leg of a scheduled concert in Fargo, North Dakota.

Morris George Cornell Vaagenes

Bonnie Kay Bieri was born in Minot Minot, North Dakota, North Dakota, in 1934 to Fred and Agnes Bieri.

Nancy Cozean

Her husband, Donald, was a state legislator in North Dakota, where he also served as state chairman of the Young Republicans.

National Whistleblowers Center

In 1999, former FBI special agent Jane Turner brought to the attention of her management team serious misconduct concerning failures to investigate and prosecute crimes against children in Indian Country and in the Minot, North Dakota community.

North Dakota Highway 17

North Dakota Highway 17 begins at an intersection with ND 3 and ND 60 east of Barton in Pierce County.

Northern Plains Railroad

The Mohall Central Railroad agreed to purchase and then let the Northern Plains Railroad operate over both a 20 mile (32 kilometer) portion of the Drayton Subdivision between Honeyford, North Dakota, and Voss, North Dakota, and a 43 mile (66 kilometer) portion of the Granville Subdivision between milepost 5.25 (north of Granville, North Dakota) and Mohall, North Dakota.

In October 2004, the Northern Plains Railroad—acting through its parent, the Soo Line Railroad—abandoned a 28 mile (45 kilometer) portion of the Devils Lake Subdivision between Harlow, North Dakota and Devils Lake, North Dakota.

The track originally leased to the railroad consisted of the 168 mile (270 kilometer) Devils Lake Subdivision between Thief River Falls, Minnesota, and Harlow, North Dakota, and the 217 mile (349 kilometer) Bisbee Subdivision between Fordville, North Dakota, and Kenmare, North Dakota.

Overly, North Dakota

Overly is located in Cecil Township in the eastern part of Bottineau County.

Phyllis Frelich

Frelich was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota to deaf parents and is the oldest of 9 children (all of whom are also deaf).

Porcupine, North Dakota

It lies only a few minutes' drive from the city of Selfridge.

R.S. Blome Granitoid Pavement in Grand Forks

R.S. Blome Granitoid Pavement is a historic road surface, as well as the associated cut sandstone curbs in a few sections, found in three of the oldest residential sections of Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Ralph Hubbard

As a child he attended Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and as a teenager on a trip to the Western United States he visited the Battle of the Little Big Horn site on one of his summer trips to his uncle’s ranch in Medora.

Richard K. Sorenson

He was transferred from Chicago to the Midwestern Recruiting Division in St. Louis, Missouri in September 1945, and while attached to that division, served at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station, Fargo, North Dakota.

Robert H. Bahmer

He earned his bachelor's degree from Valley City State University in Valley City, North Dakota, his master's from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Roderick Rose

Finally, he was elected in 1900 and 1902 to serve as state's attorney in Stutsman County.

Safeguard Program

The site, near Cavalier, North Dakota, is now operated by the United States Air Force as Cavalier Air Force Station.

Selfridge Public School

Selfridge Public School District is a school district of the publicly funded school serving the towns of Selfridge, Fort Yates, Porcupine, and the surrounding rural areas.

Spiritwood, Saskatchewan

The Spiritwood post office, which had been established in 1923, was named after Spiritwood Lake, North Dakota, the hometown of the first postmaster, Rupert J. Dumond.

Stauduhar House

He died of heart failure in Valley City, North Dakota on September 23, 1928, while supervising the construction of a church.

Summer of ’98

Maris, a native of Minnesota spent much of his youth in Fargo, North Dakota and Lupica writes about Maris, who died in 13 years earlier in 1985, his hometown and his boyhood friends.

Swede Risberg

Columbus, North Dakota newspaper reports claimed that Risberg played part of the 1927 season with a traveling team called Dellage's Cubans based in Lignite, North Dakota.

The Cheshire Unicorn

Her children’s play, Wanda T. Grimsby, Detective Extraordinaire won the 2006 Summer Shorts Festival Playwriting Competition in Williston, North Dakota.

The Movielife

While en route to their next show the band wrecked their van in Jamestown, North Dakota.

The Sentimentalists

Hailing from Grand Forks, North Dakota, they were a mere seventeen to twenty-three years of age, when they signed with the Tommy Dorsey Band, in 1944, to replace the popular Pied Pipers, after the Pipers had quit Dorsey's band to go out on their own.

Theron Strinden

Born in Litchville, North Dakota, Strinden went to college and then served in the United States Army during World War II.

Thomas Alexander Parrott

He was born at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, the son of Lt. Col. Roger Sheffield Parrott (1883 in Ohio – ?) and Mary B. Parrott (1884 in North Dakota – ?).

Timm Sharp

Sharp is a native of Fargo, North Dakota, and throughout high school, he attended Trollwood Performing Arts School in nearby Moorhead, Minnesota.

United States presidential election in North Dakota, 1996

All major counties in North Dakota turned out for Dole, including the (relativity) highly populated center of Cass County, which contains the city of Fargo.

United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1976

Only Burdick filed as a Dem-NPLer, and the endorsed Republican candidate was Robert Stroup, as state senator from Hazen, North Dakota.

Valley City State University

Valley City State University (VCSU) is an institution of higher learning in Valley City, North Dakota, United States, part of the eleven-member North Dakota University System.

Velva

Velva, North Dakota, a city in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States

Veterans Songs

Recorded in Bismarck, North Dakota, Veterans Songs is meant to "honor warriors from the past to the present."

Walter C. Taylor

He entered the newspaper business in 1890, purchasing Towner News, a small newspaper from Towner, North Dakota.

He relocated to LaMoure, North Dakota, and edited their newspaper, The Chronicle in 1894.

Whispering Grass

A live instrumental version was played and recorded by Johnny Hodges with Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the Cristal Ballroom, Fargo, North Dakota, also 1940.

William Henry Harrison Beadle

When Congress accepted the state constitution in 1889, it was so impressed that similar provisions were required for North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming.

Xu Guangchun

He has been chosen to host high-level foreign delegations, including an August, 2009 visit to Zhengzhou by seven lieutenant governors from Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota and Puerto Rico.

Ypsilanti Township, Stutsman County, North Dakota

Part of this land became Ypsilanti Township and the Ypsilanti townsite.


2009 NCAA Division I baseball season

Four schools became Division I independents− Bryant, from the Division II Northeast-10 Conference; North Dakota, from the Division II North Central Conference; SIU Edwardsville, from the Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference; and Cal State Bakersfield, in its first season of varsity intercollegiate baseball.

Arctic shrew

Arctic shrews are native to North America, ranging from the Arctic Circle in the north and as far south as the northern United States, into North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota.

Bobby Billings

Billings was soon contacted for permission to use the song at a military banquet in North Dakota hosted by Tweed Roosevelt, great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Economy of Kazakhstan

In 2006, North Dakotan Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple led an 18-member delegation of the North Dakota Trade Office representing seven North Dakota companies and Dickinson State University on a trip to Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia.

Empty Houses Are Lonely

It contains songs recorded from 2001-2003 including songs from North Dakota, Five Song Demo, and Late Night at Largo, as well as previously unreleased songs.

Fintan Mundwiler

When St. Meinrad's Abbey was destroyed by fire on 2 September 1887, he rebuilt the monastery on an even greater scale, founded a commercial college at Jasper, Indiana, and assisted in the foundation of the Priory of St. Gall in North Dakota.

Ford's Theatre

The restoration of Ford's Theatre was brought about by the two decade-long lobbying efforts of Democratic National Committeeman Melvin D. Hildreth and Republican North Dakota Representative Milton Young.

Gary Emineth

Gary Emineth (born October 24, 1958) is a political figure in the U.S. state of North Dakota, serving as the Chairman of the North Dakota Republican Party since July 2007's retirement of Ken Karls.

Henry Cuellar

He denounced inclusion in the Senate immigration bill of an amendment sponsored by Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota, which calls for seven hundred additional miles of border fencing.

Herman Beach

Named for its proximity to Herman, Minnesota, Herman Beach was formed 11,700 years ago and runs for hundreds of miles through Minnesota and North Dakota.

John George Alleman

Until 1850 the Diocese of Dubuque included all of present day Iowa, most of the state of Minnesota, and both North Dakota and South Dakota east of the Missouri River.

John Korsmo

In 1992, Korsmo ran as a Republican to represent North Dakota in the House of Representatives, but lost the elections to Earl Pomeroy by a 57% to 39% margin.

John N. Hagan

John N. Hagan (August 4, 1873 – June 4, 1952) was a North Dakota Republican/NPL politician who served as the North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor from 1917 to 1921 and from 1937 to 1938.

Joseph C. Brown

Initial point of the Fifth Principal Meridian (1815) - Brown established the initial point of the Fifth Principal Meridian which was to be used for surveying lands in the Louisiana Purchase in the states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota.

Koli Point action

Thus on 13 October, a naval convoy delivered the 2,837-strong 164th U.S. Infantry Regiment, a North Dakota Army National Guard formation from the U.S. Army's Americal Division, to Guadalcanal.

Leighton Broadcasting

Leighton Broadcasting is a radio broadcasting company based in St. Cloud, Minnesota that owns several radio stations in St. Cloud as well as in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Loaf 'N Jug

As of 2008, there were 175 Loaf 'N Jug stores, primarily in Colorado and Wyoming with additional stores in Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

Matanikau Offensive

Thus on October 13, a naval convoy delivered the 2,837-strong 164th U.S. Infantry Regiment, a North Dakota Army National Guard formation from the U.S. Army's Americal Division, to Guadalcanal.

Minot Air Defense Sector

Established in April 1959 assuming control of former ADC Western Air Defense Force 27th Air Division units in western North Dakota and eastern Montana.

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner

In the U.S. state of North Dakota, the Agriculture Commissioner, formerly known as the Commissioner, is an elected official who heads the North Dakota Department of Agriculture.

North Dakota Highway 22

The highway enters the Badlands 12 miles north of Killdeer and crosses the Little Missouri River switching from Mountain Time to Central Time.

North Dakota Royal Rangers

The ministry currently at this time is thriving in North Dakota, Midwestern region of the United States, along the Canadian border.

North Dakota State Bison

The Bison Radio Network is a series of 12 radio stations that broadcasts Bison athletics to North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and South Dakota over the air, and around the world via online streaming.

Pam Gulleson

On September 21, 2011, Gulleson announced her candidacy for the Democratic-NPL Party nomination for North Dakota's At-large congressional district in the 2012 election.

Papilio zelicaon

The usual range of the Anise Swallowtail extends from British Columbia and North Dakota at its northern extreme, south to the Baja California peninsula and other parts of Mexico.

Pierre Bottineau

Known as the "Kit Carson of the Northwest", he was an integral part of the history and development of Minnesota and North Dakota.

Roderick Rose

Roderick Rose (born Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada May 15, 1838; died Jamestown, North Dakota, September 10, 1903) was a Canadian-born American educator, lawyer, politician, and judge.

Ten Percent Society

While the organization had little early success, it started to foster an increased tolerance for gay people and a more active LGBT rights movement in North Dakota.

The Moved-Outers

It describes the internment of herself, her brother Kim, and her mother in Amache, Colorado, while her father is sent to North Dakota.

United States House of Representatives elections in North Dakota, 2014

The 2014 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the U.S. Representative from North Dakota's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of North Dakota in the 114th United States Congress.

United States presidential election in North Dakota, 2000

North Dakota is allocated 3 electors because it has 1 congressional districts and 2 senators.

Vehicle registration plates of Nevada

Co-recipient with North Dakota.

Vernon Orlando Bailey

Bailey published 244 monographs and articles during his career with the USDA, and is best known for his biological surveys of Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oregon.

Wannagan Creek site

The Wannagan Creek site is a fossil site found just west of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park of North Dakota, USA.

Westby, Montana

Westby is located on the state border with North Dakota, and near the international boundary with Saskatchewan.