Foster County Independent - The Official Newspaper for Foster County

Last weekend I was cleaning out a drawer and ran across a North Dakota map from 1956. It was in some of my dad’s belongings that I received after he passed away.

On the surface, you wouldn’t think there is a lot of information, but when you unfold this map, there is a lot to unpack and it’s all very interesting.

The most obvious piece of information I found was with the population of West...