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Fargo is the most populous city in North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County, with 125,990 residents counted in the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 56,116 households and 27,239 families in the city.

Fargo was founded in 1871 on the Red River of the North floodplain, first called Centralia before being renamed for Northern Pacific Railway director and Wells Fargo Express Company founder William Fargo.

The city grew from two early settlements, Fargo on the Prairie and Fargo in the Timber, with the modern city developing out of the prairie settlement after a federal crackdown ended the timber settlement.

Fargo became known as the Gateway to the West after the Northern Pacific Railroad arrived, and in the 1880s it was called the divorce capital of the Midwest because of its lenient divorce laws.

A fire on June 7, 1893, destroyed 31 blocks of downtown Fargo, but more than 246 new brick buildings rose within a year.

The city sits on the western bank of the Red River of the North opposite Moorhead, Minnesota, and together they form the core of the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area, which had a population of 248,591 in 2020.

North Dakota State University is in Fargo, founded in 1890 as the North Dakota Agricultural College, the state's land-grant university.

The West Acres Shopping Center, built in 1972 near the intersection of Interstates 29 and 94, is the largest shopping mall in North Dakota.

Fargo's 1957 tornado destroyed much of the north end of the city, and Ted Fujita's analysis of it helped develop his ideas for wall cloud and tail cloud.