In this extended series, I want to share with you the origins of North Dakota city names, as reported by the famous Washburn history fan Mary Ann Barnes Williams (Mary Ann Barnes Williams) . If you want to lend the book yourself, it seems to be in circulation, or at least you can visit it at the North Dakota State Library.

We are advancing the idea of ​​the city, because currently according to Wikipedia...

North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern United States. All merged communities in North Dakota are considered cities, regardless of population; there are no towns, villages, or small villages in the state.

Of course, all the credit goes to Mary Anne Barnes Williams and her collaborators, who collected this extensive information, which may be accurate, or at least correct in general Or seems to always try to be comprehensively correct. Now, all of this information was published in 1966 and may reflect the insensitivity of certain races, which was undoubtedly the rule at the time.

I have included more than 150 "cities" in this ongoing North Dakota Geographical Names Gallery. It includes an exact summary of Mary Anne Barnes Williams and a large number of works. Thanks to Digital Horizons Online.Org for introducing me to her extensive work. I will include 23 cities in each of these galleries, which are mainly grouped by county, but still span the entire state.

These stories will continue to appear until we reach 150...please keep looking at the numbers in the future. You will be surprised to learn something in your backyard that you never really knew before.