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Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo is a city in and the county seat of Cass County, North Dakota, United States. According to the 2020 census, its population was 125,990,[4] making it the most populous city in the state and the 216th most populous city in the United States. Fargo, along with its twin city of Moorhead, Minnesota, and the adjacent cities of West Fargo, North Dakota and Dilworth, Minnesota, form the core of the Fargo–Moorhead, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The MSA had a population of 248,591 in 2020.

Fargo, North Dakota

United States

1871

50.77 sq mi (131.49 km2)

906 ft (276 m)

125,990

131,444

US: 216th
ND: 1st

2,481.68/sq mi (958.19/km2)

216,214 (US: 178th)[2]

2,781.6/sq mi (1,074.0/km2)

258,663 (US: 190th)

Fargoan

UTC-5 (CDT)

58102–58109, 58121–58122, 58124–58126

1036030[3]

Fargo was founded in 1871 on the Red River of the North floodplain.[6] It is a cultural, retail, health care, educational, and industrial center for southeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. North Dakota State University is located in the city.

– In West Fargo, North Dakota, is a village made up of many historic buildings from the region. It includes a church, school building, and log cabins. It is named after the historic bonanza farms of the area.

Bonanzaville, USA

– features aircraft from World War II and beyond. Also hosts traveling exhibits.

Fargo Air Museum

– large art museum in a historic downtown building. It features regional and national exhibits.

Plains Art Museum

– small, free museum dedicated to Roger Maris in a wing of the West Acres Shopping Center. Features memorabilia and a video presentation about the New York Yankees player who lived in Fargo for a portion of his life.

The Roger Maris Museum

Museum – At Newman Outdoor Field the Maury Wills Museum is in honor of the former 1962 National League MVP and Major League Baseball player who worked for the RedHawks as a coach and as a radio analyst.

Maury Wills

– In Moorhead, MN. It displays and interprets the Hjemkomst replica Viking ship that was sailed to Norway. In addition, it is home of the Clay County Historical Society museum and archives and features a replica Norwegian Hopperstad Stave Church.

Hjemkomst Center

– In Moorhead, Minnesota, this museum displays fine art.

Rourke Art Museum

an NCAA Division I university with 14 varsity sports and club sports. North Dakota State's football team won five consecutive FCS National Championships between 2011 and 2015, and three more in 2017, 2018, and 2019 and hosted ESPN's College GameDay (in downtown Fargo) in 2013 and 2014.

North Dakota State Bison

Independent Baseball Organization started in 1996 and is a 5 Time Northern League Champion and current member of the American Association

Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks

Fargo Post#2 of the American Legion baseball league

North Dakota

Fargo Marathon

a tier 1 USHL hockey team

Fargo Force

(FMDG) women's roller derby league was founded in May 2009 and plays at the Skateland Roller Center in Fargo. Every game in their 2009–2010 season was sold out.

Fargo Moorhead Derby Girls

– indoor arena on the NDSU campus. It plays host to all NDSU home football games and is also used for concerts and trade shows. The facility also hosts the high school wrestling national freestyle and Greco-Roman championships take place every year.[53]

Fargodome

– Baseball stadium, host to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks and NDSU Bison baseball. Located at 1515 15th Ave N, Fargo on NDSU campus.

Newman Outdoor Field

Reineke Fine Arts Center – On the NDSU campus. The university uses the center for concerts, theatrical presentations, and other events.

– indoor arena used to host trade shows, sporting events, meetings, community events, concerts, and disaster relief.

Fargo Civic Center

– This arena is host to the Fargo North High School and Fargo South High School hockey teams as well as the FM Jets hockey team, before the team left Fargo. The arena was built in 1968 and has previously been home to the Fargo Blazers and NDSU Club hockey teams. The arena is also for figure skating. The Coliseum hosts the largest squirt hockey tournament in the world, the Fargo Flyers Squirt International Hockey Tournament.

John E. Carlson Coliseum

– On June 27, 2007, Fargo held a groundbreaking for the $25 million Urban Plains Center ice hockey arena.[54] Its first event was a Fargo Force Hockey home game on Thursday, October 30, 2008. The arena is used for the United States Hockey League's Fargo Force, Fargo high school hockey, and other concerts and special events. The Urban Plains Center was renamed Scheels Arena on October 6, 2010. The arena opened a second sheet of ice connected to the facility in June 2016.[55]

Scheels Arena

45th Street

42nd Street

Interstate 29

25th Street

University Drive (one-way southbound from 19th Avenue North until 13th Avenue South)

10th Street (Carries northbound University Drive traffic from 13th Avenue South until 19th Avenue North)

In popular culture[edit]

Fargo is an Academy Award–winning 1996 black comedy film directed by the Coen brothers, which takes place primarily throughout Minnesota.[67] Fargo is only seen briefly at the film's opening scene set in a bar and mentioned only twice in the film. None of Fargo was shot on location in or near Fargo.[68] A television series based on the film debuted in 2014, and occasionally featured the city in episodes.[69][70]


Fargo was the setting of Season 1 Episode 1 of Project Blue Book. The episode was based loosely on a UFO encounter called the Gorman dogfight taking place over the area.[71]

Norway

Hamar

Sweden

Vimmerby

Slovakia[72]

Martin

Fargo has three sister cities:

Fargo-Moorhead Toll Bridge

Hector International Airport

– with more than 20 Fargo properties

National Register of Historic Places listings in Cass County, North Dakota

Roman Catholic Diocese of Fargo

two ships

USS Fargo

Official website

– exists to promote Fargo, North Dakota as a destination for visitors

Fargo Visitors Bureau

Historic images of Fargo