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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]
Burleigh County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 98,458, [1] making it the second most populous county in North Dakota. Its county seat is Bismarck, the state capital. [2] The county was named for Dakota Territory political figure Walter A. Burleigh.
Divide County: 023: Crosby: 1910: Named because it was created upon the division of Williams County 2,135: 1,259 sq mi (3,261 km 2) Dunn County: 025: Manning: 1883: John P. Dunn (1839-1917), an early civic leader of Bismarck, who opened the first drugstore in North Dakota 4,019: 2,010 sq mi (5,206 km 2) Eddy County: 027: New Rockford: 1885
Bismarck–Mandan, colloquially referred to as BisMan, is the metropolitan area composed of Burleigh, Morton, and Oliver counties in the state of North Dakota. Its core cities, Bismarck and Mandan, are located on opposite sides of the upper Missouri River. Lincoln is a suburb located immediately south-east of Bismarck. The 2023 population of ...
The geographic center of North America is near the town of Rugby. Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota, and Fargo is the most populous city. View of western North Dakota. North Dakota is in the U.S. region known as the Great Plains. The state shares the Red River of the North with Minnesota to the east.
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
Bismarck is the capital of the state of North Dakota, the county seat of Burleigh County, and the second most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo.The city was formed in 1872 as "Edwinton" after Edwin Ferry Johnson, a chief engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway company, when the railroad reached the eastern banks of the Missouri River.
The location of the state of North Dakota in the United States of America. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of North Dakota: North Dakota – 39th state of the United States, having been admitted to the union on November 2, 1889. The state capital is Bismarck, and the most populous city is ...