Minot, North Dakota Minot (Listeni/ ma n t/ my-not) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Ward County, North Dakota, United States, in the state's north-central region.
It is most widely known for the Air Force base positioned approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of the city.
With a populace of 40,888 at the 2010 census, Minot is the fourth biggest city in the state and a trading center for a large portion of northern North Dakota, southwestern Manitoba, and southeastern Saskatchewan.
Minot is the principal town/city of the Minot Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan region that covers Mc - Henry, Renville, and Ward counties and had a combined populace of 69,540 at the 2010 census.
In 2012, it was estimated that the populace of the Minot Micropolitan Area was 73,146 Dakota Territory about 1886, showing Burlington and Minot.
It was the end of the stockyards 's line, so whenever a train came into the town and the stop was announced, the conductor would call out "Minot, this is Minot, North Dakota, prepare to meet your doom".
A tent town sprang up overnight, as if by "magic", thus the town/city came to be known as the Magic City, and in the next five months, the populace increased to over 5,000 residents, further adding to the nickname's validity. Minot, a barns investor, an ornithologist and friend of Hill.
Minot and its encircling area were wide open throughout 1905-20.
Nearly complete court records of Ward County and Minot document the prevalence and different types of criminal activity, and offer strong support for the dubious title of "crime capitol of North Dakota." State attorney general William Langer helped clean up the town in 1917-1920, but by the time Prohibition had appeared in the 1920s the town/city had turn into a center of illegal activities associated with the High Third district, which were exacerbated due to the town/city being a supply core of Al Capone's liquor smuggling operations.
The hotbed of alcohol bootlegging, prostitution, and opium dens that sprang up in the Downtown region soon led citizens to give Minot the nickname "Little Chicago." The 1950s saw a large influx of federal funding into the region, with the assembly of Minot Air Force Base (1956 57) thirteen miles (20 km) north of the city, and Garrison Dam (1947 53) on the Missouri River, about fifty miles (80 km) south of Minot.
On January 18, 2002, a harsh train derailment west of the town/city sent a gigantic cloud of anhydrous ammonia toward Minot, and Burlington.
Main article: Geography of Minot, North Dakota According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.45 square miles (45.20 km2), of which, 17.43 square miles (45.14 km2) is territory and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2) is water. Main article: List of neighborhoods in Minot, North Dakota These divisions are North Hill, the Souris River Valley and South Hill.
North Hill is the region roughly north of Eleventh Avenue North and Northwest Avenue.
Although the neighborhood levels out past Sixteenth Street South, the name South Hill is generally applied to all areas south up to the town/city limits.
Neighborhoods in the Souris River Valley include Bel Air, Downtown, Eastwood Park, Oak Park and West Minot.
Minot is positioned on the Drift Prairie of northwestern North Dakota.
Minot is at 48 13 59 N 101 17 32 W, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Bismarck.
Important metros/cities in the region for which Minot is the trading center include Burlington, Velva, Garrison, Stanley, Bottineau, Rugby, and New Town.
Minot is almost entirely land; the Souris River, its oxbow lakes, and a several creeks take up just 0.14% of the city's total area.
The altitude of the river at the town/city center is 1,540 feet (469 m) above sea level.[not in citation given] The valley sits some 160 feet (50 m) below the encircling plains; the altitude at the Minot International Airport on "North Hill" is 1,716 feet (523 m).
The grid addressing fitness carries over into the non-urban areas of Ward County, making the county one of only three that do not follow the statewide grid fitness in North Dakota (the the rest being Burleigh County and Grand Forks County).
The Souris River divides the town/city approximately in half, north and south.
The northern rise and the plateau north of it are referred to as North Hill and the southern rise and plateau south of it are referred to as South Hill. Climate data for Minot, North Dakota (southern suburb), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1905 present Climate data for Minot Int'l, North Dakota (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1948 present) The mayor of Minot is Chuck Barney, who works for Minot State University.
City elections are held in June in North Dakota, along with the state major election.
While the city's leadership has been trending towards the conservative, Minot's liberal factions have been active in recent years and have had somewhat more success than in other areas of the state. The Northwest Area Water Supply (NAWS) has had disputes with the Canadian government over a plan calling for water to be pumped from Lake Sakakawea, then to Minot for treatment, and then on to large stretches of Northwest North Dakota.
Minot voters decided in 1998 to levy a 1% revenue tax to go towards the assembly of NAWS; this tax fund was found in court to have been illegally diverted towards economic evolution purposes. A lawsuit was filed against the town/city and it was ordered to return the misappropriated funds to the NAWS fund.
1 Minot Air Force Base 6,754 3 Minot Public Schools 1,020 4 Cognizant (ING Minot Service Center) 600 5 Minot State University 444 10 City of Minot 343 33 Minot Daily News Minot's economy depends on the Air Force Base positioned 13 miles (21 km) north of town making the city's economy more robust than other metros/cities of its size due to its large service area; however, it is beset by momentous enigma with enterprise capital and wage standards. About 30% of Minot inhabitants work two or more jobs, and two-thirds of homeholds earn less than the nationwide median homehold income.
ING/Relia - Star established a service center in Minot in December 1998. Minot has seen a huge increase in populace and transit framework investments in the last a several years with the expanding drilling (using the 'frac' oil extraction technique) of petroleum in the Bakken Formation and Three Forks Groups. The State of North Dakota has a website detailing daily petroleum activity. The Minot Public Schools fitness operates ten elementary schools (K-5) inside the city: Bel Air, Edison, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Longfellow, Mc - Kinley, Roosevelt, Perkett, Sunnyside, and Washington. The precinct also operates Bell Elementary, positioned about five miles southeast of Minot.
There are also two elementary schools (K-6) on the Minot Air Force Base: Dakota and North Plains. There are three middle schools in the system: the two in Minot are grades 6-8: Jim Hill in the south, and Erik Ramstad in the north. Memorial Middle School on Minot AFB, is titled for declined veterans of the U.S.
The town/city has one enhance high school, Minot High School, divided between two campuses.
A several blocks east of Downtown Minot is Central Campus (grades 9-10), which is situated in the initial high school building.
On the southwest side of the town/city is the newer Magic City Campus (grades 11-12), constructed in 1973 just west of Jim Hill Middle School.
Private schools in Minot include Bishop Ryan Catholic School, which offers preschool through undertaking 12 at a single campus.
Minot is also home to Minot State University, the third biggest university in the state.
Originally a two-year teacher's college when opened in 1913, Minot State became a college in 1987.
Most of the larger daycare centers and pre-schools in the Minot region work in collaboration with small-town church groups.
There are also programs such as Head Start and preschool programs through Minot Public Schools.
The "stave church" in Minot's Scandinavian Heritage Park Minot's arts improve includes an art exhibition, a symphony orchestra, an opera company, a town/city band, a several dance and theater troupes, a youth/punk concert organization, and the AMP; over 40 organizations claim membership in the Minot Area Council on the Arts.
Nearly 40% of the city's inhabitants are of Scandinavian ancestry, and every October since 1977, Minot has been the host to the Norsk Hostfest, North America's biggest Scandinavian-American festival.
Scandinavian Heritage Park is positioned in Minot.
The Minot Park District operates seventeen parks with various facilities; Corbett Field, home to American Legion, high school and college baseball; Optimist soccer complex; MAYSA ice arena; the Sertoma Complex which has 8 softball fields; Souris Valley Golf Course, and an indoor tennis complex.
The North Dakota State Fair is held annually in Minot.
Apple Grove Grove Golf Course, and Souris Valley Golf Course are positioned in Minot.
The Minot Country Club is positioned near Burlington.
Other semi-professional hockey clubs calling Minot home were the Minot Raiders/Rangers ('75-'77) and the Minot Maple Leafs ('85-'86).
The Minot Skyrockets, a former Continental Basketball Association team, played their games at Minot Municipal Auditorium.
The Minot State Beavers play ice hockey at All Seasons Arena, baseball at Corbett Field, football at Herb Parker Stadium and basketball at the MSU Dome.
Minot is home to a several municipal sports venues including the All Seasons Arena, Corbett Field, Maysa Arena and the Minot Municipal Auditorium.
Minot maintains a sister town/city relationship with the Norwegian town/city of Skien.
Minot is also a sister town/city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, about 300 miles (480 km) to the north-west.
The metros/cities share many qualities, including their size, locale on river valleys, historical origins, and air force bases.
Main article: Media in Minot, North Dakota KMOT-TV, KXMC-TV and the Minot Daily News report on small-town news daily.
Minot is served by fifteen airways broadcasts (12 FM, 3 AM).
- Heart - Media owns and operates all of the commercial stations licensed to Minot itself: KCJB 910 (Classic Country & Talk), KRRZ 1390 (Classic Hits/Talk), KYYX 97.1 (Country), KIZZ 93.7 (Top 40), KMXA-FM 99.9 (AC), and KZPR 105.3 (Active Rock).
Additionally, the following stations are not based in Minot, but generally have a clear signal into town: Minot has six tv stations, most of which have ATSC (digital) transmitters: Midcontinent Communications provides cable service to the town/city of Minot and Minot Air Force Base.
Midcontinent offers a Bismarck-originating CW Plus cable station, KWMK, on channel 14, as well as KMSU (a cable station directed by the Minot State University transmitting department) on channel 19.
The principal small-town journal is the Minot Daily News, which prints seven days a week.
The Minot Air Force Base also has a weekly journal printed, The Northern Sentry.
Out of Garrison, ND available on the MAFB, as well as the encircling communities and many locations inside Minot.
The Minot State University student journal Red & Green is presented once a week (Thursdays) amid the regular school year, but not amid the summer months.
There is one weekly classified-ad publication, the Trading Post, printed by the Minot Daily News.
Passenger rail transit is provided daily on Amtrak's Empire Builder line, connecting Chicago with Portland and Seattle, which stops at the Minot Amtrak station.
Trains make a 20-minute refueling and crew change stop in Minot; Westbound trains arrive about 9:00 am small-town time.
Minot is midpoint along the North Dakota segment of US 2.
It is a four-lane divided highway from Minot south to Bismarck and north to Minot Air Force Base.
US 83 running through north Minot The Minot Bypass follows alternate alignments of these roads around the town/city in its northwest and northeast quadrants, with southwest and southeast bypasses in preliminary planning stages.
Minot International Airport is served by four airlines as well as charters and air taxi service around North Dakota.
A fast-growing populace and quickly expanding economy in the Minot region has been a boon to Minot International Airport, with annual passengers increasing from 66,000 in 2009 to 222,000 in 2013.
There is limited fixed-route town/city transit service (Minot City Transit) on weekdays, and flexible-route non-urban transit service (Souris Basin Transportation) on an occasional basis.
Local transit services for the elderly and disabled (Minot Commission on Aging Transit) meet federal guidelines but have 24-hour advance notice requirements.
Pedestrianism in the town/city is inhibited by a several factors; the sidewalk network is poor in many areas of the city, though improving.
The Scandinavian Heritage Park is home to the Minot Visitor's Center, as well as buildings based on the Scandinavian style of architecture, including a Stave Church.
The grounds are home to the Minot's Arts in the Park series.
Minot Riverwalk, a two and a half mile long trail for walking and biking along the Souris River in Downtown Minot.
Northwest Art Center, at Minot State, features two arcades of intact art.
The North Dakota State Fair Center, positioned on the state fairgrounds, is home to many of the city's biggest affairs, including: The North Dakota State Fair, the Norsk Hostfest, the Big One craft show, the KMOT Ag Expo, and the Great Tomato Festival.
The Railroad Museum of Minot, open on Saturdays, has displays and artifacts related to the rail history of the town/city and the state.
Boris Karloff, actor, star of 1931's Frankenstein, lived in Minot for a year Arthur Le - Sueur, Mayor of Minot, journal editor and organizer of the Socialist Party of North Dakota "Enumeration Changes: Minot Area Growth Slows After Flood".
Minot Daily News.
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The Minot Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
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"City of Minot 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report" (PDF).
"Minot Area Development Corporation".
Lee, "On Minot, N.D., Radio, A Single Corporate Voice, The New York Times, Mar.
Peter Di - Cola, "The Debate Over Minot Radio", The Huffington Post, Jan.
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