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In 1982, the town of Rutland (pop. 220) fried a 3,591-pound hamburger, the world’s largest.

first appeared: 4/13/2003

Folk art along the Enchanted Highway between Gladstone (pop. 248) and Regent (pop. 211) includes the world’s largest tin family (the man stands 45 feet tall), a pipe silhouette of President Theodore Roosevelt, and a cluster of sculpted grasshoppers.

first appeared: 4/6/2003

The state’s highest point is White Butte—3,506 feet—in Slope County.

first appeared: 3/30/2003

Author of 101 frontier novels, Louis L’Amour was born in 1908 in Jamestown (pop. 15,527).

first appeared: 3/23/2003

Established Dec. 14, 1885, St. John United Church of Christ in Hebron (pop. 803) now is housed in a brick structure built in 1908. The church was incorrectly identified as St. Ann’s Catholic Church in a previous edition of American Profile.

first appeared: 3/16/2003

Some 14,000 wells have been drilled in the state since oil was discovered on the Clarence Iverson farm near Tioga (pop. 1,125) on April 4, 1951.

first appeared: 3/9/2003

Glaciers created unusual topography at Anamoose (pop. 282) by extracting hill-size chunks of rock and sediment, then depositing them some distance later, leaving holes and hills of equal dimension.

first appeared: 3/2/2003

Built by Norwegian immigrants in 1880, Aal Lutheran Church in Mayville (pop. 1,953) is believed to be the state’s oldest church.

first appeared: 2/23/2003

The state operates eight one-room schools, including Squaw Gap and Horse Creek in McKenzie County (pop. 5,737).

first appeared: 2/16/2003

Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota averages 15 inches of precipitation a year, including 31.6 inches of snowfall.

first appeared: 2/9/2003

The state is 90 percent farmland, but petroleum is its leading mineral product, and the western counties hold a large part of America’s coal reserves.

first appeared: 2/9/2003

Dwight Baumann, a native of Ashley (pop. 882), converted his Volvo to run on soybean oil. The engineering professor starts the car on diesel, then switches to vegetable oil.

first appeared: 2/2/2003

The state is the site of 17 authorized border-crossing points to Canada and four U.S. Border Patrol stations.

first appeared: 1/26/2003

Founded in 1828 by the American Fur Co., Fort Union near present-day Williston (pop. 12,512) was an important fur-trading post on the upper Missouri River for nearly 40 years, and today is preserved as a national historic site.

first appeared: 1/19/2003

The state has more than 30,000 farms and ranches.

first appeared: 1/12/2003

The state’s sheep ranchers annually produce enough wool for 625,000 sweaters.

first appeared: 1/5/2003

Nearly 1,800 people laid in the snow March 23, 2002, flapping their arms and legs on the state Capitol grounds in Bismarck to set a new world record for the largest number of snow angels made at the same time.

first appeared: 12/29/2002

The American Elm, which often reaches heights of 120 feet or taller, was adopted as the state tree March 10, 1947.

first appeared: 12/22/2002

The state’s coldest temperature of minus 60 degrees was recorded Feb. 15, 1936, at Parshall (pop. 981).

first appeared: 12/15/2002

At 3,506 feet, White Butte in Slope County is the highest point in the state.

first appeared: 12/8/2002

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