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WDAY became the first radio station to broadcast in North Dakota when it began operations May 23, 1922, in Fargo.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

The Red River broke the 100-year flood crest record at Fargo on April 17, 1997, when it rose to 39.6 feet, or 22.6 feet above flood stage—caused in part by heavy snow melt.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

The state bird, the western meadowlark, has a complex, garbled song; far different than the slurred whistle of its eastern counterpart. Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark noted the difference in their diary for June 1805.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

Created by the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation is home to the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes.

first appeared: 2/3/2002

Mohall (pop. 812) was founded in 1901 by M. O. Hall, a banker and businessman from Duluth, Minn., who established the town’s newspaper—The Renville County Farmer—the same year.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

Encompassing 2,735 square miles, McKenzie County is the largest county in the state.

first appeared: 1/20/2002

In the 2000 Census, 25 percent of the state’s residents were under the age of 18.

first appeared: 1/13/2002

Since 1993, heavy precipitation has tripled the size of Devils Lake near the town of Devils Lake (pop. 7,222) from 40,000 to more than 120,000 acres.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

Hebron (pop. 803) is nicknamed The Brick City in recognition of the brick manufacturing company there since 1904.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

Nine daily and 79 weekly newspapers are published in North Dakota.

first appeared: 12/23/2001

Bottineau (pop. 2,336) and Bottineau County were named after Pierre Bottineau, a French-Ojibwe born near Grand Forks in 1816. Bottineau was a hunter, land speculator, and frontiersman.

first appeared: 12/16/2001

Home to the largest curling club in North Dakota, Bismarck is hosting the 2002 World Curling Championships April 6-14, the first time since 1989 that the event has been held in the United States.

first appeared: 12/9/2001

The first university in the state to provide laptop computers for its 75 faculty members and 1,100 students, Valley City State University in Valley City (pop. 6,826) was ranked as the seventh most-wired campus in the nation in 2000 by Yahoo Internet Life.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

An underground fire noted by settlers more than a century ago near Amidon (pop. 26) still burns, consuming about 10 feet of coal a year. Possibly set by lightning, the site, called Burning Coal Vein, is now part of the Little Missouri National Grasslands.

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge near Stanley (pop. 1,279) produces more ducks than any other region in the lower 48 states. Up to 45,000 ducks a year hatch on the 27,000-acre refuge, which is mostly wetlands.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

Most of present-day North Dakota was acquired from France through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

first appeared: 11/11/2001

Founded in 1887, Minot (pop. 35,567) is nicknamed the “Magic City” because of its rapid population growth during the early years of the 20th century.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

Fisher Industries, which started with one gravel mining site in Dickinson (pop. 16,010) in the 1950s, now has 40 operations across the nation. It also manufactures equipment used to process rock and gravel.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

The 20,000 American Indians in North Dakota are of the Sioux, Chippewa, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes.

first appeared: 10/21/2001

In 2000, North Dakota farmers led the nation growing pinto beans—about 1.46 million pounds, or half of the nation’s total crop.

first appeared: 10/14/2001

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