Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Binford, ND

Binford is a city in Griggs County, North Dakota, founded in 1899 when the Northern Pacific Railway laid its tracks through the area.

The town was first called Blooming Prairie and was renamed Binford for Ray Binford, a Charles City, Iowa attorney who handled the Johnson Land Company's purchase of a flax field owned by Gabriel Gabrielson.

A lumberyard and general store opened in the fall of 1899, a hotel was built in 1900, and by 1905 the town had a newspaper, a bank, a grain elevator, a hardware store, two groceries, two churches, and pool hall-bowling alleys.

The 2020 census counted 170 residents in Binford, down from a peak of 393 in 1920, and the 2010 census counted 99 households there.

Binford covers about a third of a square mile of land and is served by ZIP code 58416.

The city sits about one mile west of North Dakota Highway 1, one of the state's busier highways.

Each June the city holds Binford Days, with street vendors, a parade, a classic car show, a 5K fun run and walk, a supper and pie social, and a late-night street dance.

Binford Days also features the annual Binford Bull Ride, a sanctioned Professional Bull Riders event the city has hosted since 1999, drawing an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 spectators.

Rodeo clown Flint Rasmussen once appeared at the Binford Bull Ride.

Thomas Ryum Amlie, a United States Congressman from Wisconsin, is a notable person associated with Binford.