Spring flooding in Riverview area of Fargo, 2009įargo is a core city of the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area, which also includes Moorhead, West Fargo, and Dilworth and outlying communities.įargo sits on the western bank of the Red River of the North in a flat geographic region known as the Red River Valley. Zippia ranked Fargo as the " #1 city to start a career." Today ranked Fargo as the " #3 best place to raise kids." Recently Fargo has been ranked by ZipRecruiter as the "#1 Hottest Job Market". Coupled with Fargo's low crime rate and the decent supply of affordable housing in the community, this has prompted Money magazine to rank the city near the top of its annual list of America's most livable cities throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since the late 1990s, the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Statistical Area has consistently had one of the lowest unemployment rates among MSAs in the United States. In addition, NDSU Bison Football has gained a significant following among many area residents. The university has established a presence downtown through both academic buildings and apartment housing. Most students live off-campus in the surrounding Roosevelt neighborhood. NDSU has grown rapidly into a major research university and forms a major component of the city's identity and economy. Most older neighborhoods, such as Horace Mann, have either avoided decline or been revitalized through housing rehabilitation promoted by planning agencies to strengthen the city's core. The city's major retail districts on the southwest side have likewise seen rapid development.ĭowntown Fargo has been gentrified due in part to investments by the city and private developers in the Renaissance Zone.
Since the mid-1980s, the bulk of new residential growth has occurred in the south and southwest areas of the city due to geographic constraints on the north side. This mall became a catalyst for retail growth in the area.įargo has continued to expand rapidly but steadily. In 1972, the West Acres Shopping Center, the largest shopping mall in North Dakota, was constructed near the intersection of the two Interstates. The construction of two interstates ( I-29 and I-94) revolutionized travel in the region and pushed growth of Fargo to the south and west of the city limits. Ted Fujita, famous for his Fujita tornado scale, analyzed pictures of the Fargo tornado, helping him develop his ideas for "wall cloud" and "tail cloud." These were the first major scientific descriptive terms associated with tornadoes. įargo-Moorhead boomed after World War II, and the city grew rapidly despite a violent F5 tornado in 1957 that destroyed a large part of the north end of the city. To a crowd of 30,000, Roosevelt spoke about his first visit to Fargo 27 years earlier, and credited his experience homesteading in North Dakota for his eventual rise to the presidency. On Labor Day in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt visited Fargo to lay the cornerstone of the college's new library. In 1960, NDAC became known as North Dakota State University.į5 tornado as it approaches Hector International Airport, 1957Įarly in the century, the automobile industry flourished, and in 1905, Fargo became home to the Pence Automobile Company. The North Dakota Agricultural College was founded in 1890 as North Dakota's land-grant university, becoming first accredited by the North Central Association in 1915. There were several rumors concerning the cause of the fire. More than 246 new buildings were built within one year. Ī major fire struck the city on June 7, 1893, destroying 31 blocks of downtown Fargo, but the city was immediately rebuilt with new buildings made of brick, new streets, and a water system. The area started to flourish after the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the city became known as the "Gateway to the West."ĭuring the 1880s, Fargo became the "divorce capital" of the Midwest because of lenient divorce laws. The city was originally named "Centralia," but was later renamed "Fargo" after Northern Pacific Railway director and Wells Fargo Express Company founder William Fargo (1818–1881). Historically part of Sioux ( Dakota) territory, the area that is present-day Fargo was an early stopping point for steamboats traversing the Red River during the 1870s and 1880s. See also: Timeline of Fargo, North Dakota Early history
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