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Wild Rice, North Dakota
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 46°44′47″N 96°48′34″W / 46.74639°N 96.80944°W / 46.74639; -96.80944
Country	United States
State	North Dakota
County	Cass
Elevation	909 ft (277 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	701
GNIS feature ID	1032805

Wild Rice is an unincorporated community in Cass County, North Dakota, United States. Wild Rice is located near the Wild Rice River, 9 miles (14 km) south of downtown Fargo and 5.4 miles east of Horace.

History

Wild Rice was platted in 1884 when the railroad was extended to that point. A post office called Wild Rice was established in 1884, and remained in operation until 1970. The community was originally built up chiefly by French Canadians.

St Benedict Catholic Church

The present St. Benedict's Church was constructed in 1913. St. Benedict’s Cemetery has been the final resting place for Catholics since the 1880s with over 600 people interred.

References

1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wild Rice, North Dakota
2. Cass County, North Dakota General Highway Map (PDF) (Map). North Dakota Department of Transportation. 2004. p. 1. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
3. Hoheisel, Tim; Nielsen, Andrew R. (2007). Cass County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-7385-4145-7.
4. "Cass County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
5. Federal Writers' Project (1938). North Dakota, a Guide to the Northern Prairie State. WPA. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-62376-033-5.
6. "About". St. Benedict Church of Wild Rice. Retrieved January 1, 2021.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Cass County, North Dakota, United States
County seat: Fargo
Cities	Alice Amenia Argusville Arthur Ayr Briarwood Buffalo Casselton Davenport Enderlin‡ Fargo Frontier Gardner Grandin‡ Harwood Horace Hunter Kindred Leonard Mapleton North River Oxbow Page Prairie Rose Reile's Acres Tower City‡ West Fargo
Townships	Addison Amenia Arthur Ayr Barnes Bell Berlin Buffalo Casselton Clifton Cornell Davenport Dows Durbin Eldred Empire Erie Everest Fargo Gardner Gill Gunkel Harmony Harwood Highland Hill Howes Hunter Kinyon Lake Leonard Maple River Mapleton Noble Normanna Page Pleasant Pontiac Raymond Reed Rich Rochester Rush River Stanley Tower Walburg Warren Watson Wheatland Wiser
CDPs	Brooktree Park Embden Erie Wheatland
Unincorporated communities	Absaraka Chaffee Durbin Hickson Lynchburg Prosper Wild Rice
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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