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History · Bergen

Bergen’s post office opened in 1905

Below: maps from 1957 on and the census since 1930.

1905first post office
0on the National Register
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Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0
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How Bergen began

When was Bergen founded?

1905

The Bergen post office opened in 1905, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 98 in 19302020 census: 10121 years
Founding year: the first Bergen post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Bergen’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bergen’s history is told.

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The story so far

Bergen, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Bergen yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Bergen is a city in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 10 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Minot Micropolitan Statistical Area. Bergen was founded in 1905 and named after Bergen, Norway.

Its first post office opened in 1905. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 7 to 10 (+43%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Bergen, 1905 to 1979

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1905Post officeThe Bergen post office opens
  3. 1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1979Post officeThe Bergen post office closes
By decade

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On the map

Bergen on the map in 1957

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Bergen.

Bergen on the 1957 USGS map1957Bergen sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Bergen.

People over time

Bergen, census by census

010019401960198020002020Peak: 98

Between 7 and 98 people in every census since 1930.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Bergen’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Bergen had its own post office from 1905 to 1979.

Bergen
1905–1979
19001960today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Voltaire TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOdin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Bergen’s history

What year was Bergen founded?

The Bergen post office opened in 1905, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.