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Guelph, 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 revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5614765 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guelph, North Dakota is an unincorporated community located in Dickey County in southeastern North Dakota, United States. Founded in 1886 as a station for the Great Northern Railway, it was built close to the James River. The post office of the town was established on March 8, 1887, and its postmaster, Silas R. Dales, named the town for his hometown of Guelph, Ontario.

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Guelph, North and Dakota providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5614765. VIAF identifies the subject as 156244925. The Library of Congress control number is no97027205. Authority coordinates are 46.023, -98.236. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1886 and 1887.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guelph, 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.