Grand Forks
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- Names
Grand Forks
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- State's second largest city; began as North West Company post 1801 & expanded with Great Northern railroad 1880; economy based on food-processing & shipment, & nearby Grand Forks Air Force Base; site of several research laboratories & medical centers.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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