Rugby, North Dakota
| Rugby, North Dakota | |
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| Town | |
Downtown Rugby
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 Location of Rugby, North Dakota |
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| Coordinates: 48°22′2″N 99°59′46″W / 48.36722°N 99.99611°WCoordinates: 48°22′2″N 99°59′46″W / 48.36722°N 99.99611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | North Dakota |
| County | Pierce |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Arland Geiszler |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.94 sq mi (5.02 km2) |
| • Land | 1.94 sq mi (5.02 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,549 ft (472 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,876 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 2,846 |
| • Density | 1,482.5/sq mi (572.4/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 58368 |
| Area code(s) | 701 |
| FIPS code | 38-68860 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1031031 |
| Highways | US 2, ND 3 |
| Website | http://www.cityofrugbynd.com/ |
Rugby is a city in, and the county seat of, Pierce County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 2,876 at the 2010 census. making it the seventeenth largest city in North Dakota. Rugby was founded in 1886.
Rugby is often billed as the geographic center of North America.
Rugby was founded in 1886 at a junction on the Great Northern Railway, where a branch line to Bottineau met the main line. The railroad promoters initially platted the town as Rugby Junction, getting the name Rugby from the town of Rugby in Warwickshire, England. It was one of several sites along the Great Northern's transcontinental route between Devils Lake and Minot that were named after places in England (the others were Berwick, Leeds, Knox, Norwich, Penn, Surrey, Churches Ferry, Tunbridge, and York). When the community became a city, the Junction was dropped from the name.
North Dakota's first permanent settlers arrived in 1812 from the Earl of Selkirk’s colony in neighboring Manitoba, Canada. As farmers, they were more advanced than many of their contemporaries in the rest of the United States, having adopted sophisticated farming methods and machinery. Many of these implements, including an early McCormick Deering threshing machine, have found their way to the restored Pioneer Village in Rugby.
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