About Williston, North Dakota

Williston is a city of 29,160 people and the county seat of Williams County, close to where the Yellowstone River joins the Missouri at the upper end of Lake Sakakawea. The town was founded in 1887. Railroad magnate James J. Hill named it for his friend Daniel Willis James, a capitalist and merchant.

The city lies on the southeast edge of the Williston Basin, a huge underground formation named for the town. It holds deposits of petroleum, coal and potash. Farming and ranching long carried the local economy. Then new drilling methods such as fracking opened the Bakken formation beneath the city, and Williston's population nearly doubled between 2010 and 2020.

“The post office, known as Little Muddy, was established here Jan. 15, 1884, with G. B. Metzger, postmaster. A few miles west on higher ground, during the construction of the railroad, a tent colony with a few log cabins sprung up along Siding 25, which was designated the Williston townsite.”
Origins of North Dakota Place Names, 1966
  • Oil estimates that kept climbingIn 1995 the U.S. Geological Survey put the recoverable oil in the Bakken shale at 150 million barrels. By April 2008 the figure was about four billion barrels. In March 2012, after a lower shelf of oil was found, Continental Resources announced a possible 24 billion barrels.
  • Mandak League champions in 1956The Williston Oilers played minor league baseball in the Mandak League from 1954 to 1957. They won the league championship in 1956 and played their home games at Ardean Aafedt Stadium.

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Names on the Williston map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks1

  • City Hall

Streets and roads112

  • Second Avenue West
  • Second Street West
  • County Highway 9
  • Main Street
  • 136th Avenue Northwest
  • West Dakota Parkway
  • East Broadway
  • Highway 2
  • 26th Street West
  • 14th Street West
  • 26th Street East
  • Eleventh Street West
  • 139th Avenue Northwest
  • West Front Street
  • 32nd Avenue West
  • 56th Street Northwest
  • Sixth Avenue West
  • University Avenue
  • 135th Avenue Northwest
  • 16th Avenue West
  • 42nd Street West
  • Third Avenue East
  • Fourth Avenue West
  • 59th Street Northwest
  • Second Avenue East
  • Jensen Lane
  • East Dakota Parkway
  • 140th Avenue Northwest
  • Fourth Street West
  • County Highway 7
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  • 53rd Street Northwest
  • Seventh Street West
  • Eleventh Avenue East
  • 52nd Street Northwest
  • Frontage Road
  • 32nd Street West
  • 57th Street Northwest
  • 29th Street West
  • 18th Street West
  • 13th Avenue East
  • Energy Street
  • 19th Avenue West
  • Sunrise Drive
  • Pheasant Run Parkway
  • Reiger Drive
  • 37th Street West
  • 23rd Street West
  • 42nd Street East
  • Bison Drive
  • Derrick Avenue
  • Prairie Commons Street
  • 44th Avenue West
  • Tande Lane
  • Oil Avenue
  • Well Street
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • 32nd Avenue
  • Davidson Drive
  • Bean Drive
  • Rose Lane
  • Easy Street
  • Darby Lane
  • 50th Street Northwest
  • Eleventh Street East
  • Ninth Avenue East
  • Eighth Avenue West
  • First Avenue East
  • Frontage Road West
  • Park Place
  • Fourth Avenue East
  • 14th Avenue West
  • 133 Drive Northwest
  • 137th Avenue Northwest
  • West Broadway
  • Eighth Avenue East
  • 45th Street West
  • 50th Street West
  • 24th Street West
  • 22nd Street East
  • 44th Street West
  • 38th Street East
  • East Highland Drive
  • 31st Street West
  • Loves Way
  • Reclamation Drive
  • 66th Street East
  • Chandler Loop South
  • Airport Road
  • Clark Street
  • Mercy Drive
  • 69th Street
  • 58th Street West
  • 35th Street West
  • Riverside Drive
  • 27th Avenue West
  • Second Street East
  • 22nd Avenue West
  • 133rd Avenue Northwest
  • First Avenue West
  • 17th Avenue West
  • Chandler Loop North
  • 30th Street East
  • 51st Street Northwest
  • 15th Avenue West
  • Seventh Avenue East
  • 28th Street West
  • 38th Street West
  • 29th Avenue West
  • Saddle Ridge Circle
  • Commercial Drive
  • 35th Street East
  • Sand Creek Drive

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

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