Burleigh County, North Dakota (ND), United States, North America
Latitude
46°48'N
Longitude
100°46'W
Bismarck
, city (1990 pop. 49,256), N.Dak. and Burleigh co., S
central N.Dak., on the Missouri R.; 46°48'N 100°46'W. RR junction.
A trade and distribution point for a large spring wheat, livestock, and
dairy region. Mfg. (construction materials, printing and publishing,
beverages, wood prods., fabricated metal prods., steel fabrication,
furniture). Bismarck has grown to become a business and finance center,
as well as the principal area for development of the oil reserves in
nearby Williston Basin. Lewis and Clark camped nearby 1804-1805.
Menoken Historic Site to E. L. Oahe Reservoir
15 mi/24 km SE. With the beginning of the
river traffic in the 1830s, a steamboat port called the
“Crossing on the Missouri” emerged here. In 1872, Camp Greeley
(later Camp Hancock) was erected to protect those who were building the
Northern Pacific RR. When the RR reached the fort the next year, a town
was laid out; it was subsequently named Bismarck (for Germany's
chancellor) in the hope of attracting Ger. investment in the RR.
Bismarck boomed as a river port and RR center and as a supply point for
the Black Hills gold mines (1874). It became the territorial capital in
1883. Of interest are the state capitol (1932), a skyscraper; the state
historical mus.; Camp Hancock mus.; United Tribes Education Center; and
the Heritage Center. Univ. of Mary (1959) to S and Bismarck State Col.
(1939, 2 yr.) are here. Fort Lincoln State Park to SW, as is the state
penitentiary. Inc. 1873.
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N.Dak. and Burleigh co., S
central N.Dak., on the Missouri R.; 46°48'N 100°46'W. RR junction.
A trade and distribution point for a large spring wheat, livestock, and
dairy region. Mfg. (construction materials, printing and publishing,
beverages, wood prods., fabricated metal prods., steel fabrication,
furniture). Bismarck has grown to become a business and finance center,
as well as the principal area for development of the oil reserves in
nearby Williston Basin. Lewis and Clark camped nearby 1804-1805.
Menoken Historic Site to E. L. Oahe Reservoir
15 mi/24 km SE. With the beginning of the
river traffic in the 1830s, a steamboat port called the
“Crossing on the Missouri” emerged here. In 1872, Camp Greeley
(later Camp Hancock) was erected to protect those who were building the
Northern Pacific RR. When the RR reached the fort the next year, a town
was laid out; it was subsequently named Bismarck (for Germany's
chancellor) in the hope of attracting Ger. investment in the RR.
Bismarck boomed as a river port and RR center and as a supply point for
the Black Hills gold mines (1874). It became the territorial capital in
1883. Of interest are the state capitol (1932), a skyscraper; the state
historical mus.; Camp Hancock mus.; United Tribes Education Center; and
the Heritage Center. Univ. of Mary (1959) to S and Bismarck State Col.
(1939, 2 yr.) are here. Fort Lincoln State Park to SW, as is the state
penitentiary. Inc. 1873.
