Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Fairmont, ND: Wood & Big Grain Elevator and Flour Mill

Wood: (Satellite)
West Acres: (Satellite)
Ardent Mills: (Satellite)

Street View, Jul 2024

Wesley Peters posted
Grain Elevator Photography Trip 2, North Dakota/South Dakota/Minnesota.
Fairmount, Richland County, ND.
Osceola Milling Co./Victoria Elevator Co. Headhouse built in 1918, T. E. Ibberson Co. Bushel capacity unknown. Annex built in 1940. 25,000-bushel capacity.
The annex is one of three surviving elevator structures built for the Victoria Elevator Co. in North Dakota.
Photographed on 7/20/2025.
Photo courtesy of Wesley Peters.

Street View, Jul 2024

West Acres Grain


It has a fall protector and a long siding, so it should be rail served. In fact, I saw a couple of small cuts of hoppers on a siding in a satellite image.
Street View, Aug 2024

Ardent Mills


Obviously, this flour mill is rail served.
Street View, Aug 2024

The industrial spur that goes south serves a fertilizer supply and a propane tank farm.
Satellite

Do they supply 28% ammonia as well as dry fertilizer?
Street View, Jul 2024

Originally, the east/west route was the SOO Line, and the north/south route was the Milwaukee. The Great Northern and most of the Milwaukee is now abandoned. Today's tracks are now owned by CPKC.
1953/65 Fargo Quad @ 250,000

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