The Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba on the north, Minnesota on the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana as its western neighbor border North Dakota.
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From 1934 to 1941 the Civilian Conservation Corps maintained a base camp near Medora, North Dakota to perform landscape and restoration work on the 128 acre Chateau de Mores State Historic Site and the de Mores City Park.
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When Dakota Territory was created in 1861 it was named for the Dakota Indian tribe. Dakota is a Sioux word meaning friends or allies.