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Ellendale School District

school district in Ellendale, North Dakota

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ108443758 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ellendale Public School District No. 40 is a school district with a single K-12 school, Ellendale Public School, in Ellendale, North Dakota. One division is Ellendale High School (EHS).

The district, located in Dickey County, includes Ellendale, Forbes, Fullerton, and Monango.

History

In 1939 the gymnasium was built, and in 1957 an elementary school was built.

On April 27, 2010, there was an election scheduled for a school bond project to build a new school. The anticipated bond would be $4 million.

Operations

By 1985 it had a guidance counselor.

It has an annual publication, The Redbird. Its school newspaper is The Cardinal.

Editorial summary

“Ellendale School District” enters the record as school district in Ellendale, North Dakota. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ellendale, School and District can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 1957, 2010, 1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ellendale, School and District.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ellendale School District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ellendale, School and District provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q108443758. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1939, 1957, 2010 and 1985.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ellendale School District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ellendale School District primary sources, Ellendale School District archive and Ellendale research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ellendale School District”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Ellendale School District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.