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A flax field in bloom in North Dakota. The use of flax fibers dates back tens of millennia; [9] linen, a refined textile made from flax fibers, was worn widely by Sumerian priests more than 4,000 years ago. [53] Industrial-scale flax fiber processing existed in antiquity. A Bronze Age factory dedicated to flax processing was discovered in ...
Flaxton is a city in Burke County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 60 at the 2020 census. [3] Flaxton was founded in 1900 and was named because the predominant crop in the area is flax. [4]
A map of the FM Area Diversion Project. The Fargo-Moorhead (FM) Area Diversion project, officially known as the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Diversion Flood Risk Management Project, is a large, regional flood control infrastructure project on the Red River of the North, which forms the border between North Dakota and Minnesota and flows north to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada.
The Johnson Land Company of Iowa purchased a flax field owned by Gabriel Gabrielson when the Northern Pacific Railway laid its tracks in 1899. The town of "Blooming Prairie" was renamed Binford after attorney Ray Binford of Charles City, Iowa who handled the Land Company's purchase.
There are 53 counties in the U.S. state of North Dakota. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify states and counties, is provided with each entry. [1] North Dakota's code is 38, which when combined with any county code would be written as 38XXX.
North Dakota oil extraction included the flaring of over 200 billion cubic feet of associated petroleum gas in year 2019. [5] Operations were widely distributed throughout the Bakken Formation which underlays the northwest region of the state. This record-high volume of wasted natural gas could have generated over 30,000 GWh of electrical ...
A federal appeals court denied a request on Friday to delay a judge's decision that North Dakota's legislative map violates the Voting Rights Act in diluting the voting strength of two Native ...
Shot within the North Dakota section of the Great Plains where a small population of Moose can be found. [1] The geography of North Dakota consists of three major geographic regions: in the east is the Red River Valley, west of this, the Missouri Plateau. The southwestern part of North Dakota is covered by the Great Plains, accentuated by the ...