Fargo-Moorhead is a common name given to the metropolitan area comprising Fargo, North Dakota, Moorhead, Minnesota, and the surrounding communities. These two cities lie on the North Dakota-Minnesota border, on opposite banks of the Red River of the North. The larger Fargo-Moorhead area also encompasses the communities of West Fargo, North Dakota, Dilworth, Minnesota and numerous other towns and developments from which commuters travel daily for work, education and regular activities. The Census Bureau defines the Fargo Metropolitan Area as comprising all of Cass County, North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota. The metropolitan area has an area of 7,278 km² (2,810 mi²), and its population, according to the 2000 census, is 174,367. A 2006 estimate revealed that the population has climbed to around 200,000.
Core Cities of Fargo/Moorhead
Bedroom Communities
- Barnesville, Minnesota
- Glyndon, Minnesota
- Hawley, Minnesota
- Sabin, Minnesota
- Briarwood, North Dakota
- Casselton, North Dakota
- Frontier, North Dakota
- Harwood, North Dakota
- Horace, North Dakota
- Kindred, North Dakota
- Mapleton, North Dakota
- North River, North Dakota
- Prairie Rose, North Dakota
- Reile's Acres, North Dakota
Fargo/Wahpeton CSA
The Census Bureau also tracks a Fargo-Wahpeton Combined Statistical Area, consisting of Cass and Clay counties, as well as Richland County, North Dakota and Wilkin County, Minnesota. This area includes the twin cities of Wahpeton, North Dakota and Breckenridge, Minnesota. The Fargo-Moorhead urban core is actually about an hour's worth of highway travel from the Wahpeton-Breckenridge core. The main connection between these two pairs of cities is the Red River Valley, the flat, fertile land that both depend upon for a major part of their economies. Potatoes are an important crop in the region, in addition to most of the other crops produced elsewhere in Minnesota and North Dakota.
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Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area (ND-MN) |
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| Counties | Cass | Clay |
| Main Cities | Fargo† | Moorhead† | West Fargo | Dilworth |
| Surrounding Areas | Alice | Amenia | Argusville | Arthur | Ayr | Barnesville | Briarwood | Buffalo | Casselton | Comstock | Davenport | Enderlin | Erie | Felton | Frontier | Gardner | Georgetown | Grandin | Glyndon | Harwood | Hawley | Hitterdal | Horace | Hunter | Kindred | Leonard | Mapleton | North River | Oxbow | Page | Prairie Rose | Sabin | Tower City | Reile's Acres | Ulen | Wheatland |
| † - county seat | |
