East Grand Forks
East Grand Forks is a city in Northwestern Minnesota. It's the smaller neighbor of the much better known Grand Forks, North Dakota. EGF's population peaked at about 8,985 in 1996 estimate, before the city was badly damaged during the incredible Red River Flood of 1997.Photo: Russell Lee (photographer), Public domain.
Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 7,860 residents
- Description: city in Polk County, Minnesota, United States of America
- Also known as: “City of East Grand Forks”, “East Grand Forks, Minnesota”, and “East Grand Forks, MN”
- Postal code: 56721
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grand Forks City Hall and Red River State Recreation Area.
Grand Forks City Hall
Town hall
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Grand Forks City Hall is a building in Grand Forks, North Dakota that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was built in 1911.
Red River State Recreation Area
Park
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Red River State Recreation Area is part of the Greater Grand Forks Greenway and is located in the city of East Grand Forks, Minnesota on the banks of the Red River of the North and the Red Lake River.
Greater Grand Forks Greenway
Park
Photo: Alexwcovington, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Greater Grand Forks Greenway is a huge greenway bordering the Red River and Red Lake River in the twin cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand Forks.
Grand Forks
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Forks is a city in northeast North Dakota, a state in the United States of America. With a population of about 57,000 people in 2017, it's the third largest urban area in the state.
East Grand Forks
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of East Grand Forks, Polk, Northwestern Minnesota, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.9317° or 47° 55′ 54″ northLongitude
-97.0176° or 97° 1′ 3″ westPopulation
7,860Elevation
830 feet (253 metres)United Nations Location Code
US EGQOpen location code
86V4WXJJ+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 151531251OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“East Grand Forks” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيست غراند فوركس (مينيسوتا)”
- Arabic: “إيست غراند فوركس”
- Basque: “East Grand Forks”
- Catalan: “East Grand Forks”
- Cebuano: “East Grand Forks”
- Chechen: “Ист-Гранд-Форкс”
- Chinese: “East Grand Forks”
- Chinese: “东大福克斯”
- Chinese: “東大福克斯”
- Chinese: “西大佛克斯城”
- Czech: “East Grand Forks”
- Danish: “East Grand Forks”
- Dutch: “East Grand Forks”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايسانت جراند فوركس”
- French: “East Grand Forks”
- German: “East Grand Forks”
- Gilaki: “ایست گرند فؤرکز (مينسؤتا)”
- Gilaki: “ایست گرند فؤرکز”
- Haitian: “East Grand Forks, Minnesota”
- Haitian: “East Grand Forks”
- Ido: “East Grand Forks, Minnesota”
- Ido: “East Grand Forks”
- Irish: “East Grand Forks”
- Italian: “East Grand Forks”
- Japanese: “イーストグランドフォークス”
- Kazakh: “Ïst Grand Forks”
- Kazakh: “Ист Гранд Форкс”
- Kazakh: “ىيست گراند فوركس”
- Kirghiz: “Ист Гранд Форкс”
- Ladin: “East Grand Forks”
- Malagasy: “East Grand Forks, Minnesota”
- Malagasy: “East Grand Forks”
- Mazanderani: “ایست گرند فورکس (مینهسوتا)”
- Mazanderani: “ایست گرند فورکس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “East Grand Forks”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “East Grand Forks”
- Norwegian: “East Grand Forks”
- Persian: “است گرند فورکز، مینه سوتا”
- Persian: “است گرند فورکز، مینهٔ سوتا”
- Persian: “ایست گرند فورکس، مینهسوتا”
- Persian: “ایست گرند فورکس”
- Polish: “East Grand Forks”
- Portuguese: “East Grand Forks”
- Russian: “Ист-Гранд-Форкс”
- Serbian: “Ист Гранд Форкс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “East Grand Forks, Minnesota”
- Serbo-Croatian: “East Grand Forks”
- Slovak: “East Grand Forks”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایست قرند فورکس، مینهسوتا”
- Spanish: “East Grand Forks (Minnesota)”
- Spanish: “East Grand Forks”
- Swedish: “East Grand Forks”
- Tatar: “Ист-Гранд-Форкс”
- Turkish: “East Grand Forks, Minnesota”
- Turkish: “East Grand Forks”
- Ukrainian: “Іст-Гранд-Форкс”
- Ukrainian: “Іст-Ґранд-Форкс”
- Urdu: “ایسٹ گرینڈ فورکس، مینیسوٹا”
- Urdu: “ایسٹ گرینڈ فورکس”
- Uzbek: “East Grand Forks”
- Uzbek: “Еаст Гранд Форкс”
- Vietnamese: “East Grand Forks, Minnesota”
- Vietnamese: “East Grand Forks”
- Volapük: “East Grand Forks”
- Welsh: “East Grand Forks, Minnesota”
- Welsh: “East Grand Forks”
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