Williston, North Dakota Williston, North Dakota Business precinct of Williston Location of Williston, North Dakota Location of Williston, North Dakota State North Dakota Williston is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Williams County, North Dakota, United States. The 2010 census gave its populace as 14,716, and the Enumeration Bureau gave the 2015 estimated populace as 26,977, making Williston the sixth biggest city in North Dakota.
The North Dakota petroleum boom is largely responsible for the sharp increase in population.
Williston's newspapers, both in print and online, are the daily Williston Herald and the weekly The Williston Trader.
Williston is the home of Williston State College and the Miss North Dakota Scholarship Pageant.
Williston is positioned at the crossroads of U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.56 square miles (19.58 km2), of which 7.50 square miles (19.42 km2) is territory and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km2) is water. The municipality is 18 miles (29 km) from the Montana-North Dakota border and 60 miles (97 km) from the Canada United States border. Williston has a semi-arid climate (Koppen climate classification 'BSk'); it is part of USDA Hardiness zone 4a. The normal monthly mean temperature ranges from 11.0 F ( 11.7 C) in January to 70.1 F (21.2 C) in July. On average, there are 2.9 days that reach 100 F (38 C) or higher, 25 days of 90 F (32 C)+ highs, 42 days with a low of 0 F ( 18 C) or below, 9.6 days with lows plummeting to at least 20 F ( 29 C), and 7.7 days that do not rise above 0 F annually. The average window for freezing temperatures is September 19 thru May 20, allowing a burgeoning season of 121 days; .
Extreme temperatures officially range from 50 F ( 46 C) on December 23, 1983 and February 16, 1936 up to 110 F (43 C) on July 5, 1936; the record cold daily maximum is 29 F ( 34 C) on January 16, 1930, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum is 78 F (26 C) last set July 19, 1974. Climate data for Williston, North Dakota (Sloulin Int'l), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1894 present Williston is in northwestern North Dakota's booming petroleum patch where adequate, affordable housing has turn into a concern. According to a February 2014 article in Business Insider, Williston had the highest apartment rents in the United States. The 2010 census counted a populace of 14,716, up from 12,680 in 2000, but the number of current inhabitants is likely much higher because the count did not include those living in temporary housing.
There were 6,180 homeholds of which 29.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.6% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.5% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.9% were non-families.
Gas station at Farmers' Cooperative in Williston, 1941.
Williston's economy, while historically agricultural, is increasingly being driven by the petroleum industry.
Williston lends its name to the Williston Basin, a huge subterranean geologic feature known for its rich deposits of petroleum, coal and potash.
Williston sits up on the Bakken formation, which by the end of 2012 was predicted to be producing more petroleum than any other site in the United States, surpassing even Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, the longtime prestige in domestic output in the United States. (The State of North Dakota provides a website detailing daily petroleum activity.) In 1995, the U.S.
In April 2008, the number was said to be about four billion barrels; in 2010 geologists at Continental Resources, the primary drilling operation in North Dakota, estimated the reserve at eight billion.
Williston has seen a huge increase in populace and transit framework investments amid the last a several years with period drilling using the 'frac' oil extraction technique in the Bakken Formation and Three Forks Groups. Examples of petroleum trade related transit framework investments are the multi-acre branch ground of Baker Hughes, the Sand Creek Retail Center, and the Jim Bridger shops & offices.
Photo of a undivided precast concrete building in Williston, North Dakota USA.
Williston is also comparatively close to the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Lake Sakakawea a large man-made lake positioned close to Williston.
Eagle Ridge Golf Club an eighteen-hole golf course positioned on Highway 2 north of Williston.
Williston Municipal Golf Course a 9-hole golf course positioned at 3600 42nd Street West in Williston.
The Links of North Dakota at Red Mike Resort an 18-hole links course east of Williston.
Cut Bluff Overlook a historic site positioned about two miles (3 km) east of Williston on the south side of Highway 1804.
James Memorial Art Center Originally the improve library (est 1911), The James was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.It now serves as an art & cultural center for the community, offering art exhibits and art classes. Williston Area Recreation Center a 234,00 square foot recreation center, assembled in 2014, that includes an indoor surfing, golf simulators, and a water park.
Williston Keybirds of North Dakota American League Baseball Williston State College Tetons: women's and men's basketball, women's volleyball, men's ice hockey, women's softball and men's baseball.
The Williston Public School District#1 serves the city.
Trinity Christian School is a private K-12 school positioned in Williston.
Joseph Catholic School is a private K-6 school positioned in Williston.
Williston State College is also positioned in Williston, off University Avenue.
The college, established in 1961 as the University of North Dakota Williston (UND-W), is a two-year enhance college affiliated with the North Dakota University System (NDUS).
At Williston State College, students can earn an Associate in Arts (AA), Associate in Science (AS), and/or an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree.
Williston Herald By 1984, however, the Williston signals had been replaced by those of similar stations in Detroit.
89.5 KPPR North Dakota Public Radio/NPR partner The town/city of Williston is served by the Sloulin Field International Airport, which has a customs service in its facilities.
Fed - Ex Express of Memphis, TN, provides cargo flights to and from the Williston, ND Airport (ISN) and Grand Forks, ND (GFK) airport utilizing Cessna 208 - B Caravans with Cargo - Master cargo pods.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, serves a station in Williston via its Empire Builder, a once-daily train in each direction between Portland, Oregon/Seattle, Washington and Chicago.
US 2 and US 85 at Williston Williston clinics include Craven-Hagan Clinic, Fairlight Medical Center, and Trinity Community Clinic-Western Dakota.
Fairlight has the only Veteran's Affairs clinic in northwestern North Dakota and also serves inhabitants of northeastern Montana.
Mercy Medical Center is the Williston hospital.
Carrigan, United States District Court judge and Colorado Supreme Court justice, practiced law in Williston Sally Fraser, actress, born in Williston Williston (Amtrak station) Williston Herald Official records for Williston kept at the Weather Bureau Office from January 1894 to June 1948 and at Sloulin Int'l since July 1948. John Matzko, Reconstructing Fort Union (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 26; Ben Innis, Sagas of the Smoky-Water (Williston, ND: privately presented, 1985), 344.
North Dakota Place Names.
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"Station Name: ND WILLISTON SLOULIN INTL AP".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"What Life Is Like In Williston, The North Dakota Oil Boomtown Where Tiny Apartments Top $2,000 A Month".
"What North Dakota Could Teach California".
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