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Over time, Grand Forks has gradually expanded in population and now has 4,049 residents within its city limits. The greater rural area, (Area D of the Regional District of Kootenay-Boundary), has another ~3,500 residents. In May 2018 Grand Forks, and the Boundary region as a whole, were affected by flooding of the Kettle and Granby Rivers.
The area is 8,095.62 km 2 (3,125.74 sq mi). The RDKB was incorporated in 1966 and consists of eight incorporated municipalities and five unincorporated electoral areas. The regional district's offices are in the City of Trail, with secondary offices in the City of Grand Forks.
The largest city in the region is Grand Forks with a city population of almost 4,000 and an area population of about 10,000. The incorporated municipalities in the Boundary Country are the cities of Grand Forks and Greenwood and village of Midway. The unincorporated communities are Bridesville, Rock Creek, Westbridge, Christian Valley ...
In 1902, the Great Northern Railway (GN) and the KVL opened Grand Forks–Curlew–Republic routes. [12] The KVL track crossed the river near Danville. [13] The GN Danville station was 4.1 miles (6.6 km) northeast of Hurlburt and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Grand Forks Junction. [14] In 1903, KVL completed a freight depot at Danville. [15]
It is a cross-border spur that connects with U.S. Route 395 (from which it derives its number) at the Canada–U.S. border crossing near Laurier, Washington. Its northern terminus is at the Crowsnest Highway near Cascade, about 20 km (12 mi) east of Grand Forks. [2]
The V postal code area is currently the most utilized in Canada, with only three of the 180 available urban FSAs not yet assigned. Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, [1] via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry, [2] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell ...
The Kettle River is a 281-kilometre (175 mi) tributary of the Columbia River, encompassing a 10,877-square-kilometre (4,200 sq mi) drainage basin, of which 8,228 square kilometres (3,177 sq mi) are in southern British Columbia, Canada and 2,649 square kilometres (1,023 sq mi) in northeastern Washington, US. [4]
Grand Forks is 74 miles (119 km) north of the Fargo-Moorhead area and 145 miles (233 km) south of Winnipeg, Manitoba. [26] Grand Forks is on the western bank of the Red River of the North in an area known as the Red River Valley. The term "forks" refers to the forking of the Red River with the Red Lake River near downtown Grand Forks. [11]