Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Selfridge, ND

Selfridge is an incorporated city in Sioux County, North Dakota, lying within the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

The city was settled in 1911 along a Milwaukee Road branch line that diverged from the railroad's Pacific Extension route at McLaughlin, South Dakota, and ran toward New England, North Dakota.

For its first eight years Selfridge operated as an unincorporated community without municipal ordinances, and residents twice lobbied unsuccessfully to move the Sioux County seat there from Fort Yates.

By 1925 the town had grown to 51 homes and 63 businesses, including four schools, two churches, three grain elevators, two banks, a hotel, and a newspaper.

The 2020 census counted 127 residents in Selfridge, down from a peak of 371 in 1960, and the 2010 census counted 59 households there.

The city covers just under a third of a square mile of land and is served by ZIP code 58568.

The Selfridge Public School District runs two school buildings, an elementary school for kindergarten through sixth grade and a high school for grades seven through twelve, enrolling around 100 students.

The schools were built in the 1950s to replace the old main school building, and the elementary school was once a private school for St. Philomena Catholic Church.

During the Great Depression, Works Progress Administration crews built the city auditorium, installed sidewalks, and established a city park in Selfridge.

The Milwaukee Road line through town was abandoned in 1983, leaving Selfridge without railway access, and North Dakota Highway 6 is now its main access route.