About Casselton, North Dakota

Casselton is a city of 2,479 people in Cass County, North Dakota. In 1873 the Northern Pacific Railway sent Mike Smith here to plant cottonwoods and willows as windbreaks beside its tracks, hoping to cut them later for railroad ties. That plan failed, but Smith stayed, and in 1874 Emil Priewe and his wife joined him. Their son Harry, born in a sod shanty on March 28, 1875, was the first child born in the settlement.

People called the young hamlet the Nursery, among other names. In 1876 the railroad opened a station it called Casstown, after its president, George Washington Cass, and when the post office opened on August 8, 1876, the name became Casselton. A school was organized that same year. The town counted 376 people in 1880, the year it became a village on July 23, and it was a city by 1883.

“CASSELTON: In 1870 the first settlers of this townsite area called it GOOSE CREEK or SWAN CREEK for the stream nearby, which the early French explorers named Aux Ontardes, for the many flocks of wild geese that fed and nested there.”
Origins of North Dakota Place Names, 1966
  • 10,000 acres, one farmGeorge Cass and Peter Cheney swapped their railroad stock in the 1870s for 10,000 acres near Casselton. Instead of splitting the land into small tracts, they ran it as one huge farm and hired Oliver Dalrymple of southern Minnesota to manage it. These bonanza farms succeeded and showed that the prairie made good farmland. Newcomers followed, and by 1885 Casselton had 1,365 people.
  • A roundhouse from 1906The Great Northern Railway ran several branch lines from Casselton and dug a reservoir to water its steam engines. Its roundhouse and service center, built in 1906, worked until 1920. After the railroad moved its workers away in the 1920s, the town lost 285 people from 1920 to 1930. In 1957 the railway gave the 73-acre reservoir to the city, which drew water from it until March 1978. It is now a park with ball diamonds and tennis courts.
  • A tower of oil cansIn 1933 Max Taubert stacked thousands of oil cans on the lot of a Sinclair gas station that also held a hamburger stand. The pile rose about 45 feet and was billed as the world's largest oil can pile. When it faced possible demolition in 2008, local volunteers stepped in and saved it.
  • The fire of December 30, 2013On December 30, 2013, a westbound BNSF train hauling soybeans derailed about a mile west of town, and an eastbound crude oil train struck the wreckage. The burning oil set off explosions felt miles away, and the black smoke led officials to ask residents to leave as a precaution. No one was hurt, because the oil train's crew escaped before the flames reached the engines. In 2017 federal investigators blamed a broken axle on the soybean train.

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Names on the Casselton map

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Places and landmarks4

  • Saint Leo Cemetery
  • Tinta Tawa Park
  • Nickl Park
  • Cottonwood Golf Club

Streets and roads55

  • 155th Avenue Southeast
  • Fifth Street North
  • Langer Avenue
  • Langer Avenue South
  • Langer Avenue North
  • 7 Street
  • Fifth Avenue North
  • 36th Street Southeast
  • Martin's Avenue North
  • Front Street
  • 156th Avenue Southeast
  • Third Street North
  • Second Street North
  • First Street North
  • Second Street South
  • 35th Street Southeast
  • First Street South
  • Eighth Avenue South
  • Fourth Avenue North
  • Morningside Drive
  • Fourth Street South
  • Old County Road 10
  • Third Street South
  • Heartland Avenue
  • Tenth Avenue North
  • Ninth Avenue South
  • Cottonwood Drive
  • Fairway Drive
  • Third Avenue North
  • 13th Avenue North
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  • Twelfth Avenue North
  • 37th Street Southeast
  • Sixth Avenue North
  • Ninth Avenue North
  • Third Avenue South
  • Eighth Avenue North
  • Industrial Boulevard
  • First Avenue South
  • Fourth Street North
  • Fifth Street South
  • Willow Bend Drive
  • Great Northern Avenue West
  • Governor's Drive
  • Sixth Avenue South
  • Morningside Court
  • Seventh Street Court
  • Second Avenue South
  • First Avenue North
  • Fourth Avenue South
  • Sixth Street North
  • Eighth Street North
  • Willow Bend Circle
  • Second Avenue North
  • Sixth Street South
  • Eighth Street South

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