The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusBucyrus is a city, without paved roads, in Adams County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 18 at the 2020 census. The city was founded in 1907 along the Milwaukee Road's transcontinental rail line known as the Pacific Extension. Before being named Bucyrus in 1908, the city was called first Wolf Butte and then Dolan, which was ultimately rejected due to similarity with Doland, South Dakota. The new name Bucyrus was taken from the Bucyrus Company steam shovels used to build the railroad grade within the city. In 1922 a cyclone hit and destroyed the home of the Herbert and Ruth Spencer family in Bucyrus, killing three and injuring three. After the storm, the surviving family memb…
Bucyrus was established in 1908. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 27 to 18 (-33%). Half of its homes were built before 1972.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Bucyrus yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bucyrus’s history is told.
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Bucyrus, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Bucyrus is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Bucyrus has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is US Post Office-Hettinger in Hettinger, 8.5 miles away.
Bucyrus and the nearest listed places
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.