Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Beulah, ND

Beulah is a city in Mercer County, North Dakota, and the largest city in the county.

Beulah was founded in 1914 and named for Beulah Stinchcombe, the niece of a local land developer.

The 2020 census counted 3,058 people in 1,232 households in Beulah, making it the 17th-most populous city in North Dakota.

The city covers 2.468 square miles, of which 2.443 square miles is land.

Beulah's motto is "Small Town Appeal...Big City Looks."

Beulah is home to the Dakota Gasification Company.

Beulah lies near the largest lignite mine in the United States, the Freedom Mine owned by North American Coal Corporation, which produced more than 14 million short tons of lignite in 2018.

Commercial lignite mining in the Beulah area began in 1873, and the Beulah Coal Company began operation in 1917 before becoming the Knife River Coal Mining Company.

Beulah's school system began in a one-room schoolhouse in an unused barn south of the city, attended at first by only five children, and a later school building was destroyed by fire in 1934.

Today Beulah has an elementary, middle and high school, whose sports teams are called the Miners, while the American Legion baseball team is called the Cyclones.