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Coulee is an unincorporated community in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States, on the border of Ward County. [ 1 ] It is the location of Our Savior's Scandinavian Lutheran Church , which is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .
Mountrail County is a county in the northwestern part of North Dakota, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,809. [1] Its county seat is Stanley. [2] The county was originally created in 1873, then removed in 1892, annexed by Ward County.
Bismarck was founded by European-Americans in 1872 on the east bank of the Missouri River. It has been North Dakota's capital city since 1889, when the state was created from the Dakota Territory and admitted to the Union. [10] Bismarck is across the river from Mandan, named after a Native American tribe of the area. [11]
Coulee City is located at (47.611942, -119.290904 It sits on the southern shore of Banks Lake, a man-made reservoir that stretches for 27 miles to Grand Coulee Dam.At Coulee City, water from the reservoir enters a system of irrigation canals taking it to Billy Clapp Lake to the south and then beyond across the broader Columbia Basin Project.
At Elm Coulee Field, the Bakken is only about 45 feet (15 m) thick and lies at depths of 8,500 to 10,500 feet (2,600–3,200 m), but horizontal wells penetrate 3,000 to 10,000 feet (900–3,000 m) of the reservoir rock, a porous dolomite of Devonian age that probably originated as a large carbonate bank on the western flank of the basin.
Grand Coulee is two canyons, with an open basin in the middle. The Upper Coulee, filled by Banks Lake, is 25 miles (40 km) long with walls 800 to 900 feet (240 to 270 m) tall. It links to the Columbia River at Grand Coulee Dam and leads southward, through the surrounding highlands. The entry to the coulee is 650 feet (200 m) above the Columbia.