Fargo: North Dakota's Largest City on the Red River
Fargo sits on the western bank of the Red River of the North, directly across from Moorhead, Minnesota. The river flows north toward Winnipeg and Hudson Bay, and its flat valley, once the bed of glacial Lake Agassiz, produces some of the deepest topsoil in North America. The city was founded in 1871 as a crossing point for the Northern Pacific Railway and named after William Fargo of Wells Fargo. With roughly 126,000 residents, it is by a wide margin the largest city in North Dakota.
North Dakota State University anchors the north side of the city. The university enrolls around 12,000 students and is known for its agricultural research and for Bison football, which has won multiple FCS national championships. The downtown district along Broadway has been gradually rebuilt since the 1990s, with older warehouse buildings converted to restaurants, offices, and apartments. The Fargo Theatre, a restored 1926 cinema, remains a landmark of the district.
Microsoft operates its largest campus outside of Redmond in Fargo, employing several thousand people in software development, support, and finance operations. The company inherited the site from Great Plains Software, a Fargo-based company it acquired in 2001. Sanford Health, one of the largest rural health systems in the country, maintains a major presence in the city alongside its headquarters role. Case IH and CNH Industrial continue a long tradition of agricultural equipment manufacturing in the region.
The 1996 Coen brothers film titled Fargo created a lasting association between the city and the movie, though only one scene was actually set there. Most of the plot unfolded in and around Minneapolis. The film's woodchipper prop now sits in the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center, acknowledging the association with some humor.
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Fargo sits on the western bank of the Red River of the North, directly across from Moorhead, Minnesota. The river flows north toward Winnipeg and Hudson Bay, and its flat valley, once the bed of glacial Lake Agassiz, produces some of the deepest topsoil in North America. The city was founded in 1871 as a crossing point for the Northern Pacific Railway and named after William Fargo of Wells Fargo. With roughly 126,000 residents, it is by a wide margin the largest city in North Dakota.
North Dakota State University anchors the north side of the city. The university enrolls around 12,000 students and is known for its agricultural research and for Bison football, which has won multiple FCS national championships. The downtown district along Broadway has been gradually rebuilt since the 1990s, with older warehouse buildings converted to restaurants, offices, and apartments. The Fargo Theatre, a restored 1926 cinema, remains a landmark of the district.
Microsoft operates its largest campus outside of Redmond in Fargo, employing several thousand people in software development, support, and finance operations. The company inherited the site from Great Plains Software, a Fargo-based company it acquired in 2001. Sanford Health, one of the largest rural health systems in the country, maintains a major presence in the city alongside its headquarters role. Case IH and CNH Industrial continue a long tradition of agricultural equipment manufacturing in the region.
The 1996 Coen brothers film titled Fargo created a lasting association between the city and the movie, though only one scene was actually set there. Most of the plot unfolded in and around Minneapolis. The film's woodchipper prop now sits in the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center, acknowledging the association with some humor.
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