Everest, North Dakota

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Everest, North Dakota
Unincorporated community
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Everest
Coordinates: 46°51′35″N97°13′16″W / 46.85972°N 97.22111°W / 46.85972; -97.22111
Country Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
State Flag of North Dakota.svg North Dakota
County Cass
Township Everest
Elevation
932 ft (284 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
58059
Area code 701
GNIS feature ID1033853 [1]

Everest is an unincorporated community in Everest Township, Cass County, North Dakota, United States. It is located south of Casselton.

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Geography

Everest is 20 miles (32 km) from Fargo, the county seat. [2] Everest lies at the junction of North Dakota Highway 18 and 155th Avenue SE, near the Casselton Robert Miller Regional Airport. [3]

History

Everest, North Dakota, plat map in 1893 Everest, North Dakota, plat map in 1893.png
Everest, North Dakota, plat map in 1893

Everest began as a railroad station on the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway. Everest was on both the Waupeton-Ripon railroad line (between Durbin and Sidney) and the Casselton-Larimore rail line (at the terminus of that line). [4] [5] The rail line connecting the two railroads was announced to be nearing completion in October 1882. [6] The Everest post office opened in 1882. [7]

Everest was a platted community, with the town divided into twelve blocks. The east-west streets were named A, B, C, and D Streets, with the north-south streets being named Front, Second, Third, and Fourth Streets. Manvell Street ran diagonally along the line of the Great Northwestern Railroad. The community was built directly west of the rail line. [8] By the 1880s, Everest was considered a "small town in Cass County [...] some 20 miles from Fargo." [9] William Langer, who later twice served as governor of North Dakota, was born in Everest in 1886 (he served as governor from 1933 to 1934, and from 1937 to 1939). [10] The population of the community was estimated as 200 in 1890. [11]

In March 1894, the business district of Everest was wiped out by fire. The fire was estimated to have done $35,000 in damage. [12] The fire began in a vacant hotel room. [13]

The Everest School District was numbered 102. [14] The Everest school building was a one-room schoolhouse. [15] The school building was also used as an official polling location. [16] [17]

The population was 213 in 1900. [18] Circa 1906, Everest was the site of three grain elevators: those of the St. Anthony and Dakota Elevator Company, the Cargill Elevator Company, and the Northwestern Elevator Company. [19] The Everest post office closed in 1908. [7]

In 1920, the popululation of Everest was 64. [20] The population was estimated at 100 in 1940. [2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Geographic Names Information System". edits.nationalmap.gov. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
  2. 1 2 The Attorneys List. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Attorney List Department. 1940. p. 718.
  3. ↑ "Cass County, North Dakota - Map" . Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  4. ↑ Dakota Territory Department of Immigration and Statistics (1887). Resources of Dakota: An Official Publication Compiled by the Commissioner of Immigration, Under Authority Granted by the Territorial Legislature. Containing Descriptive Statements and General Information Relating to the Soil, Climate, Productions ... The Vacant Public Lands and how to Obtain Them ... Argus leader Company, printers. p. 342.
  5. ↑ Immigration, Minnesota State Board of (1885). The State of Minnesota: Its Agricultural, Lumbering and Mining Resources, Manufacturing and Commercial Facilities, Railroads, Pleasure Resorts, Fish, Game, Etc. ... Pioneer Press. p. 202.
  6. ↑ "Untitled". wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org. Bismarck, ND: Bismarck Tribune. October 27, 1882. p. 4. Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  7. 1 2 "Notification Service | Post Offices". www.postalhistory.com. Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Plat Book of Cass County, North Dakota". D.W. Ensign & Co. 1893.
  9. ↑ Court, Dakota Territory Supreme; Bennett, Granville Gaylord; Smith, Ellison Griffith; Tripp, Robert B. (1889). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Dakota. Bowen and Kingsbury. p. 263.
  10. ↑ Capace, Nancy (January 1, 2001). Encyclopedia of North Dakota. Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 139. ISBN   978-0-403-09608-4.
  11. ↑ Cram, George Franklin (1891). Cram's Universal Atlas: Geographical, Astronomical and Historical, Containing a Complete Series of Maps of Modern Geography, Illustrated by Numerous Views and Charts; the Whole Supplemented with Valuable Statistics, Diagrams, and a Complete Gazetteer of the United States. G.F. Cram. p. 404.
  12. ↑ "Bismarck Weekly Tribune Archives, Mar 16, 1894, p. 5". NewspaperArchive.com. March 16, 1894. Retrieved September 20, 2025. The business portion of the town of Everest in Cass county was wiped out by fire Sunday. The loss will reach $35,000.
  13. ↑ "Untitled". wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org. Waupeton, ND: The Waupeton Times. November 18, 1886. Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Cass County - State and Local Government Records - Archives Holdings - Archives - State Historical Society of North Dakota". www.history.nd.gov. Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  15. ↑ "Margaret Kensok" . Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  16. ↑ "Certificate of Nominees". wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org. Fargo, ND: Fargo Forum And Daily Republican. June 4, 1918. p. 5. Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  17. ↑ "Official Proceedings". wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org. Fargo, ND: Fargo Forum and Daily Republican. October 13, 1908. p. 14. Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  18. ↑ Cram, George F. (1900). Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled. J. R. Gray & Company. p. 215.
  19. ↑ Commission, North Dakota Public Service (1906). Annual Report of the North Dakota Public Service Commission to the Governor and Department of Accounts and Purchases. p. 21.
  20. ↑ Premier Atlas of the World: Containing Maps of All Countries of the World, with the Most Recent Boundary Decisions, and Maps of All the States, Territories, and Possessions of the United States with Population Figures from the Latest Official Census Reports, Also Data of Interest Concerning International and Domestic Political Questions. Rand McNally & Company. 1925. p. 236.
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