Country United States County Traill FIPS code 38-11500 Elevation 261 m Zip code 58219 Local time Monday 6:17 AM | State North Dakota Time zone Central (CST) (UTC−6) GNIS feature ID 2584338 Area 134 ha Population 39 (2010) Area code 701 | |
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Caledonia is a census-designated place in Traill County, North Dakota in the United States. A former boomtown of the 1870s and the era of the Hudson's Bay Company steamship trade, the community has now all but virtually disappeared.
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Map of Caledonia, ND 58045, USA
An unincorporated community, it was designated as part of the U.S. Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program on March 31, 2010. It was not counted separately during the 2000 Census, but was included in the 2010 Census, where a population of 39 was reported.
History
First called Goose River, the community was established as a post for the Hudson's Bay Company steamships which operated on the Red River of the North. Caledonia became an early boom town in the Red River Valley and also became a post for a stagecoach line which lead north to Fort Garry — now called Winnipeg. Upon the creation of Traill County in 1875, Caledonia was designated as the county seat. However, in that same year, the Hudson's Bay Company closed their U.S. posts including the one at Caledonia. When James J. Hill's railroad crossed Traill County, it bypassed Caledonia. The steamboat industry soon floundered and the county seat was moved to Hillsboro in 1896.
Geography
Caledonia sits on the banks of the Goose River near the confluence with the Red River of the North.