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The Red River has flooded the Red River Valley numerous times since the late 1800s, and eight of the top 10 floods have occurred since 1989. [1] When it is ready to operate in 2027, the roughly $3.2 billion project will protect more than 273,000 people in the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area from catastrophic flooding. [ 2 ]
The Red River Valley is a region in central North America that is drained by the Red River of the North; it is part of both Canada and the United States.Forming the border between Minnesota and North Dakota when these territories were admitted as states in the United States, this fertile valley has been important to the economies of these states and to Manitoba, Canada.
KVRR studio in Fargo, North Dakota. The station first signed on the air on February 14, 1983, under the callsign KVNJ-TV. It was the first independent station in the Dakotas, as well as the first new standalone full-power commercial station to sign on in the Fargo–Grand Forks market in 29 years.
Both the Downtown Fargo Street Fair and the Red River Valley Fair were ongoing at the time of the ambush, and attracted hundreds of visitors. [ 10 ] Barakat was wearing a tactical vest carrying several magazines and used a .223-caliber rifle equipped with a binary trigger and double-stacked high-capacity magazines, which were capable of holding ...
Carrington, North Dakota to Turtle Lake, North Dakota Oberon, North Dakota to Esmond, North Dakota Shortly after it began operations, the Red River Valley and Western Railroad acquired a 19-mile (31 km) rail line between Oakes, North Dakota and Hecla, South Dakota from the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern Railroad.
The city was platted in 1871 and named for William Galloway Moorhead, a Northern Pacific Railway official and brother-in-law of financier Jay Cooke. [10] [11]The former Moorhead Armory on 5th Street South was the site of the intended concert destination for musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper before their fatal plane crash a few miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa around 1:00 ...
Fargo–Moorhead, also known as the FM area, is a common name given to the metropolitan area comprising Fargo, North Dakota; Moorhead, Minnesota; and the surrounding communities. These two cities lie on the North Dakota–Minnesota border, on opposite banks of the Red River of the North. The region is the cultural, retail, health care ...
Red River in Winnipeg, Manitoba The Red River in Greater Grand Forks, as viewed from the Grand Forks side of the river The Red River near Pembina, North Dakota, about 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of the Canada–U.S. border. The Pembina River can be seen flowing into the Red at the bottom.