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Gardar, North Dakota

human settlement in North Dakota, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ22034057 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gardar is an unincorporated community in Pembina County, in the U.S. state of North Dakota.

As of 2016, its population is 90.

History

Gardar was founded ca. 1878, and was originally built up chiefly by Icelanders. A post office was established at Gardar in 1881, and remained in operation until 1984. The population was 90 in 1940.

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The public source identifies “Gardar, North Dakota” as human settlement in North Dakota, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gardar, North and Dakota.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 1878, 1881, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gardar, North and Dakota providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q22034057. Authority coordinates are 48.589, -97.874. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 1878, 1881 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gardar, North Dakota” 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.