Most of Reile's Acres was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2004. Below: maps from 1959 on and the census since 1980.
On February 22, 1977, at 9:30, Reile's Acres was incorporated as a city by order of the Cass County ND Commission with a population of 147. In 1976, just before the incorporation, the new city had 31 homes with a total value of $164,248.00 or an average value of roughly $5,300.00 per home. Reile's Acres is named for Reinhold Reile who originally owned the land and had a farmstead on the site. Therefore, the city is properly referred to with the apostrophe in Reile's. The move toward incorporation came about when the development of Reile's Acres reached a point where the Reed Township Board could not handle the costs of road maintenance. Residents of the Reile's Acres area said that through incorporation, state and federal funds as well as tax money would be available to take care of those needs.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Reile's Acres. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1959Fargo North 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 Reile's Acres.
People over time
Reile's Acres, census by census
Grew from 191 people in 1980 to 703 in 2020, 3 times over.
5 censuses, 1980–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Reile's Acres’ Wikipedia page.
Famous people
Famous people close to Reile's Acres
Nobody well known was born in Reile's Acres itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) 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.
