Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota World's Largest Buffalo Monument in Jamestown World's Largest Buffalo Monument in Jamestown Location of Jamestown, North Dakota Location of Jamestown, North Dakota State North Dakota Jamestown is a town/city in Stutsman County, North Dakota, United States.

It is the governmental center of county of Stutsman County. The populace was 15,427 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth biggest city in North Dakota.

Jamestown was established in 1872.

Jamestown was established in 1872 and General Thomas Rosser of Northern Pacific titled it after Jamestown, Virginia.

In 1873, Stutsman County became the first official county inside Dakota Territory with Jamestown as the county seat. On November 10, 1889, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jamestown was established.

Since 1995, the Diocese of Jamestown is listed as a titular see of the Catholic Church. The James River, a Missouri River tributary, in Jamestown Jamestown is positioned at 46 54 20 N 98 42 11 W (46.905641, -98.702994) at the confluence of the James River and Pipestem Creek.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.87 square miles (33.33 km2), of which, 12.83 square miles (33.23 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. Climate data for Jamestown, North Dakota (1981 2010) In October, 2016 the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency projected that Jamestown would lose 2.1% of its populace by the next census.

It also reported that it projected a 4% populace drop in the nine counties encircling Jamestown and is considered Jamestowns major trade area. Jamestown has a strong precision manufacturing base as well as food processing, agriculture, retail and wholesale businesses.

Notable companies headquartered in Jamestown include ACI (Agri-Cover, Inc.), Dura Tech Industries, and Midwestern Machine, and additional primary employers include Cavendish Farms and UTC Aerospace Systems.

Service facilities for trucking and heavy equipment repair are also positioned in Jamestown.

The Jamestown Stutsman Development Corporation supports joint company and industrialized evolution inside the town/city and Stutsman County, North Dakota.

Four designated industrialized parks adjoin the town/city or are part of joint city/county evolution efforts: Bloom Business Park, I-94 Business Park, Spiritwood Energy Park (which includes Great River Energy and Cargill), and the Airport Business Park.

The World's Largest Buffalo statue in Jamestown Jamestown Reservoir, a series of three, interlocking, 12-mile-long artificial lakes formed by Jamestown Dam, a flood control a dam on the James River at the north end of the city, is home to watersports and recreational fishing.

Jamestown is home to two 18-hole golf courses Hillcrest Golf Course and Jamestown Country Club as well as the Jamestown Civic Center, which hosts concerts, University of Jamestown basketball games, other large affairs, and the North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame; other sporting facilities include Jack Brown Stadium, one of North Dakota's historic baseball parks.

Jamestown is also home to two disc golf courses, an 18-hole recreational course in Klaus Park, and a 27-hole championship course on the island and encircling land in the Jamestown Reservoir.

The town/city of Jamestown is also home to The Jamestown Arts Center (), positioned in the heart of downtown.

Jamestown also features the World's Largest Buffalo, a 26-ft tall sculpture of an American bison.

Jamestown Regional Airport serves the town/city providing scheduled flights to all four primary North Dakotan urbane areas, as well as chartered flights out of state.

Jamestown is served by the Jamestown Public Schools.

Louis L'Amour Elementary School is titled for the prominent writer Louis L'Amour who was born in Jamestown.

There are also two private elementary schools in Jamestown; Saint John's Academy a K-6 Catholic school, and Hillcrest School, a Seventh-day Adventist school.

The Unruh and Sheldon Center on the ground of University of Jamestown University of Jamestown is a private liberal arts college established by the Presbyterian Church and positioned on the north side of town.

After financial hardships, affecting the entire county, Jamestown College had to close its doors in the spring of 1890.

22, 1909 Jamestown College reopened after a populace growth in the State due to improved farming methods.

With no college studies available between Fargo, ND (100 miles East) and Missoula, MT (700 miles West), Jamestown College became a prosperous school. Because of the school's locale, Jamestown became the first town/city in America to require wheelchair cutouts in newly constructed sidewalk curbs. The small-town daily paper is the Jamestown Sun.

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North Dakota Housing Finance Agency Taylor Barnes, Executive Director, Jamestown Fine Arts Association, 2013 "US News and World Report moves University of Jamestown to top tier".

Jamestown College.

University of Jamestown.

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Jamestown, North Dakota.

Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article about Jamestown, North Dakota.

City of Jamestown official website The Jamestown Sun website University of Jamestown website Jamestown Disc Golf Information The Jamestown Arts Center Jamestown : a short history of the early days in Jamestown, North Dakota (1933) from the Digital Horizons website Jamestown, North Dakota : improve fact survey (1963) from the Digital Horizons website Jamestown, North Dakota : region fact survey (1968) from the Digital Horizons website Jamestown, North Dakota : region fact survey (1972) from the Digital Horizons website Jamestown Municipalities and communities of Stutsman County, North Dakota, United States State of North Dakota

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