Category talk:Cities in North Dakota

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Appropriate standards?

At current, the qualifications for the major city category are a population of 2450, sufficient to include the cities listed on Template:North Dakota, excluding air bases.

IMO

A cutoff point of 3000 is probably best, taking Beulah and Hazen as a unit (5609). I don't think Rugby should make the cut myself, but its unique position and population just under 3000 could merit an exception. --Alexwcovington (talk) 17:44, 10 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Census data

For reference, here's the centres over 2000 population from 2000 census data. After Langdon there, the next largest is Harvey at 1989.

Fargo city, Cass County	90599
Bismarck city, Burleigh County	55532
Grand Forks city, Grand Forks County	49321
Minot city, Ward County	36567
Mandan city, Morton County	16718
Dickinson city, Stark County	16010
Jamestown city, Stutsman County	15527
West Fargo city, Cass County	14940
Williston city, Williams County	12512
Wahpeton city, Richland County	8586
Minot AFB CDP, Ward County	7599
Devils Lake city, Ramsey County	7222
Valley City city, Barnes County	6826
Grand Forks AFB CDP, Grand Forks County	4832
Grafton city, Walsh County	4516
Beulah city, Mercer County	3152
Rugby city, Pierce County	2939
Hazen city, Mercer County	2457
Belcourt CDP, Rolette County	2440
Bottineau city, Bottineau County	2336
Lisbon city, Ransom County	2292
Carrington city, Foster County	2268
Langdon city, Cavalier County	2101