| LC control no. | n 81042836 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Grand Forks (N.D.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | North Dakota--Grand Forks |
| Variant(s) | Grand Forks, N.D. City of Grand Forks (N.D.) Grann Fòks (N.D.) Grandforksa (N.D.) Гранд-Форкс (N.D.) |
| See also | Les Grandes Fourches (North Dakota) |
| Beginning date | 1870 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | North Dakota |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 47°55ʹ31ʺN 097°01ʹ58ʺW) Wikipedia, Sept. 6, 2012 (Grand Forks, North Dakota; City of Grand Forks; county seat of Grand Forks County; 47°55ʹ31ʺN 97°1ʹ57ʺW) Haitian page (Grann Fòks) Latvian page (Grandforksa) Russian page (Гранд-Форкс = Grand-Forks) Grand Forks, North Dakota in Wikipedia, viewed March 25, 2015 history (Alexander Griggs platted the community in 1875 and it was officially incorporated on February 22, 1881) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Forks,_North_Dakota> Tweton, J. D. Grand Forks : a pictorial history, 1986: p.10 (Fur traders named and marked their maps Les Grandes Fourches. Frenchmen who had been in the Sieur de la Verendrye Expedition of 1734 selected Les Grandes Fourches as a rendezvous point. Alexander Henry ran a successful fur business at Les Grandes Fourches beginning in 1806. In the 1820's John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company operated in the area. In 1868 it became a division point in the Fort Abercrombe to Fort Gary mail route. In 1870 a post office was established and the name anglicized to Grand Forks. |
| Geographic area code | n-us-nd |
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