{"id":6698,"date":"2023-08-11T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:20:46","slug":"cass-county-north-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/cass-county-north-dakota\/","title":{"rendered":"Cass County, North Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cass County is a county in North Dakota, United States, on the state&rsquo;s eastern edge along the Red River. It had a population of 184,525 at the 2020 census and covers 1,767.8 square miles (4,579 km2) centred near 46&deg;56&prime;N 97&deg;15&prime;W.<\/p>\n<p>Fargo is the county seat; its postal code is 58102. Cass County includes 27 incorporated cities, 4 census-designated places and 8 unincorporated communities, organised into 56 civil townships. The county lies in the Central time zone and carries FIPS code 38017.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Cass County<\/h2>\n<p>Cass County is North Dakota&rsquo;s most populous county by a wide margin, anchored by Fargo and its suburb West Fargo. All incorporated places in North Dakota are legally cities &mdash; there is no separate town or village class &mdash; so the table below marks Fargo as the county seat, the other confirmed incorporated places as City, the Fargo-area census-designated places as CDP, and a handful of long-standing rail-siding communities as Unincorp. Several names that appear on older lists for this county &mdash; among them Alice, Durbin, Everest, Fife, Frontier, Lynchburg, Magnolia, Mason, Myra, Newman, Nolan, Norman, Pinkham, Prairie Rose, Prosper, Saint Benedict, Vance, Walden, Warren and Woods &mdash; are the names of Cass County&rsquo;s civil townships rather than separate populated places, and are not repeated here as settlements (see the note in this page&rsquo;s sourcing).<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Fargo<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>125,990<\/td>\n<td>58102<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Fargo<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>38,626<\/td>\n<td>58078<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Horace<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58047<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Casselton<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>2,472<\/td>\n<td>58012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kindred<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58051<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mapleton<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58059<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Harwood<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58042<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Argusville<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58005<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Davenport<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Arthur<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Leonard<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58052<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hunter<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58048<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wheatland<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58079<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tower City<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58071<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Buffalo<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gardner<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58036<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Page<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58064<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Amenia<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58004<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grandin<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58038<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Erie<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58029<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ayr<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Absaraka<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>58002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Reiles Acres<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Fargo ZIPs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Briarwood<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Fargo ZIPs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brooktree Park<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Fargo ZIPs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>South West Fargo<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>Fargo ZIPs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chaffee<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Embden<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Erie Junction<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oxbow<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Riverside<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wild Rice<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Enderlin, sometimes listed under Cass County, sits mainly across the line in Ransom County and is not repeated here. Wheatland Colony is a Hutterite colony near the city of Wheatland rather than a separate incorporated place and is grouped with it.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>58102 &mdash; Fargo (Fargo also uses 58103&ndash;58109, 58121&ndash;58126 for downtown, NDSU and PO-box ranges)<\/li>\n<li>58078 &mdash; West Fargo<\/li>\n<li>58047 &mdash; Horace<\/li>\n<li>58012 &mdash; Casselton<\/li>\n<li>58051 &mdash; Kindred<\/li>\n<li>58059 &mdash; Mapleton<\/li>\n<li>58042 &mdash; Harwood<\/li>\n<li>58005 &mdash; Argusville<\/li>\n<li>58021 &mdash; Davenport<\/li>\n<li>58006 &mdash; Arthur<\/li>\n<li>58052 &mdash; Leonard<\/li>\n<li>58048 &mdash; Hunter<\/li>\n<li>58079 &mdash; Wheatland<\/li>\n<li>58071 &mdash; Tower City<\/li>\n<li>58011 &mdash; Buffalo<\/li>\n<li>58036 &mdash; Gardner<\/li>\n<li>58064 &mdash; Page<\/li>\n<li>58004 &mdash; Amenia<\/li>\n<li>58038 &mdash; Grandin<\/li>\n<li>58029 &mdash; Erie<\/li>\n<li>58007 &mdash; Ayr<\/li>\n<li>58002 &mdash; Absaraka<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The four Fargo-area census-designated places (Reiles Acres, Briarwood, Brooktree Park and South West Fargo) and the small unincorporated communities have no ZIP code of their own and use the nearest Fargo or West Fargo code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Cass County sits on the flat, fertile Red River Valley &mdash; the bed of glacial Lake Agassiz &mdash; and is one of North Dakota&rsquo;s top farming counties. The Red River of the North forms the county&rsquo;s entire eastern boundary with Minnesota, and the Sheyenne River crosses the county diagonally from the southwest before joining the Red near West Fargo; the Maple River drains the county&rsquo;s southern townships. Elevation is nearly level across most of the county, rising slightly toward a high point of 1,194 feet in the southwestern corner.<\/p>\n<p>Cass County borders <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/traill-county\/\">Traill County<\/a> to the north, Norman County, Minnesota to the northeast, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/clay-county-minnesota\/\">Clay County, Minnesota<\/a> to the east, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/richland-county-north-dakota\/\">Richland County<\/a> to the southeast, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/ransom-county\/\">Ransom County<\/a> to the southwest, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/barnes-county\/\">Barnes County<\/a> to the west, and <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/steele-county-north-dakota\/\">Steele County<\/a> to the northwest.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Cass County had 184,525 residents at the 2020 census, more than a quarter of North Dakota&rsquo;s total population and nearly double that of the state&rsquo;s second-largest county. Fargo (125,990) and West Fargo (38,626) together hold roughly nine in ten county residents, with the rest spread across two dozen small cities and the county&rsquo;s farm townships. Countywide density works out to about 105 people per square mile of land, though this varies sharply between the Fargo-Moorhead urban area and the surrounding rural townships. North Dakota&rsquo;s statewide median household income is the North Dakota median of $76,525; Cass County, driven by Fargo&rsquo;s health-care, technology and education employment base, tends to run at or above that figure, though a verified county-level estimate is not published here.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Fargo anchors the Fargo&ndash;Moorhead metro economy, with health care (Sanford Health and Essentia Health, both headquartered in Fargo), higher education (North Dakota State University), financial and insurance services, and a growing technology sector among the largest employers. Outside the city, agriculture drives the county&rsquo;s smaller towns &mdash; wheat, soybeans, corn, sugar beets and dry beans are the dominant crops on the Red River Valley&rsquo;s dark, glacial-lakebed soil, and grain elevators anchor towns like Casselton, Buffalo and Tower City along the BNSF main line. The Red River Valley Fair, held each July in West Fargo, is the county&rsquo;s largest annual event.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>Cass County was created by the Dakota Territory legislature on January 4, 1873, and organised later that year, named for George Washington Cass, then president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose line reached the Red River crossing at Fargo in 1872 and drove the county&rsquo;s early settlement. Fargo grew quickly as a railhead and territorial trade center; a major downtown fire in 1893 destroyed much of its business district and led to a rebuilding in brick and stone that still marks the historic downtown. The Red River&rsquo;s flat valley has produced repeated spring floods, most notably in 1997 and again in 2009, when Fargo and West Fargo built emergency levees to hold back record river crests.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 29 runs north&ndash;south through the county along the Red River corridor and Interstate 94 runs east&ndash;west, meeting in an interchange at Fargo; US Highway 10 and US Highway 81 also cross the county. Hector International Airport (FAR) in Fargo is the region&rsquo;s main commercial airport, and Amtrak&rsquo;s Empire Builder calls at the Fargo station on its Chicago&ndash;Seattle\/Portland route.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Casselton &mdash; 20 miles west of Fargo<\/li>\n<li>Kindred &mdash; 20 miles south of Fargo<\/li>\n<li>Mapleton &mdash; 12 miles west of Fargo<\/li>\n<li>Hunter &mdash; 25 miles north of Fargo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Cass County, North Dakota?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits on North Dakota&rsquo;s eastern border, along the Red River across from Minnesota, centred near Fargo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Cass County?<\/strong><br \/>\n184,525 at the 2020 census, more than a quarter of North Dakota&rsquo;s entire population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Cass County?<\/strong><br \/>\n1,767.8 square miles (4,579 km2), of which about 1,765 square miles is land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Cass County?<\/strong><br \/>\nFargo is the county seat and North Dakota&rsquo;s most populous city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns are in Cass County?<\/strong><br \/>\n27 incorporated cities, 4 census-designated places and a handful of smaller unincorporated communities, spread across 56 civil townships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes are in Cass County?<\/strong><br \/>\nFargo and West Fargo each carry several ZIP codes, and each of the county&rsquo;s smaller cities &mdash; Casselton (58012), Kindred (58051), Horace (58047) and about eighteen others &mdash; has its own five-digit code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What river runs through Cass County?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Red River of the North forms the entire eastern county line, with the Sheyenne and Maple rivers crossing the interior.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/north-dakota\/\">Towns and villages in North Dakota<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass County is a county in North Dakota, United States, on the state&rsquo;s eastern edge along the Red River. It had a population of 184,525 at the 2020 census and covers 1,767.8 square miles (4,579 km2) centred near 46&deg;56&prime;N 97&deg;15&prime;W. Fargo is the county seat; its postal code is 58102. 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