Hanks, North Dakota

Hanks is an unincorporated community in Williams County, North Dakota, United States, and is a suburb of Williston.

Demographics

Hanks is located on North Dakota Route 50, and has the latitude of 48.603N, and the longitude of-103.802W.The elevation is 2,116 Feet, and is located in the Central Time Zone.

History

The town was named after W.F. Hanks, a banker. During the 1930s, a man hanged himself in the basement of the town bank. [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/emptied-north-dakota/richards-photography] The town was included in the National Geographic article, "The Empty Prarie", published in January of 2008. The article showed how the plains of North Dakota are abandoned in the present. In the photo of Hanks, North Dakota, it mentions that there is only one farm left in this community.

References

*http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/emptied-north-dakota/bowden-text
*http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=52823
*http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl