Emerson

The rural municipality of Emerson-Franklin is the main crossing into for -bound traffic from the United States. A sparsely-populated expanse of prairie at the eastern edge of the Pembina Valley, it includes the communities of Emerson, West Lynne, Roseau River, Franklin, Arnaud, Tolstoi and Dominion City.
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  • Type: Village with 671 residents
  • Description: local urban district in Manitoba, Canada
  • Also known as: Emerson, Manitoba” and “Emerson, MB

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Dufferin.

Historic site
is a former Canadian government post near the Canada–United States border at Emerson, Manitoba. The fort was used during the 1870s as a base for the North American Boundary Commission and the North-West Mounted Police, and as an immigration station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pembina and Noyes.

is a city in , United States. The population was 512 at the 2020 census. is located 2 miles south of the Canada–US border.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. Located in the extreme northwestern corner of the state on the Canada–United States border, is the northern terminus of U.S. Highway 75 and site of a former road border crossing.

Emerson

Latitude
49.0061° or 49° 0′ 22″ north
Longitude
-97.2089° or 97° 12′ 32″ west
Population
671
Elevation
239 metres (784 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA EME
Open location code
86X42Q4R+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1208132383
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5948571
Wiki­data ID
Q312121
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Emerson” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Emerson
  • Chinese: 爱默生
  • Dutch: Emerson
  • Esperanto: Emerson
  • French: Emerson
  • German: Emerson
  • Italian: Emerson
  • Serbian: Emerson
  • Serbian: Емерсон
  • Spanish: Emerson (Manitoba)
  • Spanish: Emerson
  • Swedish: Emerson, Manitoba
  • Swedish: Emerson

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Emerson”. Photo: Rkehler3, CC BY-SA 3.0.