Missouri River

In March 1929, as ice broke up in the Missouri River, local federal meteorologist O. W. Roberts watched, issued advisements, and recorded what was going on. He wrote: “As long as there is ice on the Missouri river, there is danger of a flood.” Many others also watched the river. The Bismarck Tribune commented the “banks of the river between Bismarck and Mandan were crowded with spectators.” They watched huge logs in the river and reported seeing muskrats riding downstream on cakes of ice.

In 1832, the Yellow Stone set a record voyage up the Missouri River by reaching Fort Union, on the border of present-day Montana and North Dakota.In 1837,…

Many North Dakota towns are named after a prominent person, like Bismarck; or a connection to the railroad, such as Grenora; or for natural features, like…

The January 1st Run-Off Forecast by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers points to a “very large run-off year” for the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City,…

The US Army Corps of Engineers says runoff continues to be high throughout most of the Missouri River Basin."2019 continues to be a very wet year…

History of the Garrison Dam is forever entwined with the lifeways of the native people of the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota. The…

On this date in 1887 the McClean County Mail touted the great advantages that the town of Washburn had to offer. The town had been founded five years…

The Missouri River never had a Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, to pilot its historic steamboats into the literary canon. Steamboating on the Great…

The weather was fine as the men of the Corps of Discovery worked on their pirogue boats for several days at Fort Mandan on the Missouri River during their…

About eight miles north of Bismarck is a bluff on which the Mandan Indians once had a thriving village called Double Ditch Village, which is designated as…