3/31/2007:
The Northern Pacific Railroad townsite of Wyndmere was established in1883. It was named for Windermere Lake, Westmorelandshire, England whose name is derived from “wynd”, w-y-n-d, meaning a narrow lane, and “mere”, meaning pool or lake…Wyndmere! The post office was established January 7th 1884 and the Soo Line Railroad crossed the Northern Pacific tracks there in 1888, at which time a new place dubbed East Wyndmere popped up. Well, a couple of years later, most of the Wyndmere buildings had been moved to the new site which adopted the old name and incorporated as a village in 1902. The village wouldn’t be officially incorporated as a city until this date, March 31st, 1959. Known at one time as the “Corn Capitol of North Dakota”, Wyndmere reached its peak population of 664 in 1960.
By Merrill Piepkorn
Source: North Dakota Place Names; Douglas Wick