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Portal is a city in Burke County, North Dakota, United States.The population was 125 at the 2020 census. [3] Portal was founded in 1893. Portal sits along the Canada–United States border and is a major port of entry border crossing for road (connecting US Route 52 and Saskatchewan Highway 39) and rail traffic.
North Portal was a centre of illegal export during Prohibition in the United States. [ 2 ] Canada replaced its wood bungalow-style border station in 1955 with a two-story brick and glass structure, then again in 1987 with a single-story sprawling brick structure with an attached three-lane canopy.
The North Dakota Department of Career and Technical Education is part of the government of the U.S. State of North Dakota.The department is a component of the state's education system that provides technical skills and knowledge for students to succeed in careers and cross-functional workplace skills such as teamwork, problem solving, and the ability to find and use information.
Former Canadian border station, Northgate. In 1962, the building of Highway 8 realigned the road to 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of the previous crossing. [4] After being idle for years, the Canadian National Railway upgraded its tracks at this crossing to support rail traffic from the Bakken oil field.
United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) is a private tribal land-grant community college in Bismarck, North Dakota. In 2012, UTTC had an enrollment 885 students, 635 full-time undergraduates, and 250 part-time undergraduates. [1]
North Dakota Mill and Elevator postcard, ca. 1922 North Dakota State Seed Department on North Dakota State University campus. The state is the largest producer in the U.S. of many cereal grains, including barley (36% of U.S. crop), durum wheat (58%), hard red spring wheat (48%), oats (17%), and combined wheat of all types (15%).
The North Dakota Lignite Research, Development, and Marketing Program is a fund that provides for the research, development, and marketing of North Dakota's lignite coal resources. It is administered by the Industrial Commission, under advisement from the Lignite Research Council, a group of public and private sector experts appointed by the ...
The Flag of North Dakota. North Dakota (/ d ə ˈ k oʊ t ə / ⓘ də-KOH-tə) is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west.