JAMESTOWN, a city of North Dakota, U.S.A., on the James river and Federal highway so, midway between Fargo and Bismarck, at an altitude of 1,429 ft.; the county seat of Stutsman county. It is served by the Midland Continental and the North ern Pacific railways. The population in 1930 (Federal census) was 8,187. It is the trading and shipping point of a fine farming and stock-raising country. The Northern Pacific has division head quarters and repair shops here. Jamestown college, a Presbyterian
institution established in 1909, has an enrolment of over 5oo. Just south of the city is the State hospital for the insane. Settle ment began here in 1873, near Ft. Seward (established in 1872 and abandoned in 1877). The city was chartered in 1883. Be tween 1900 and 1920 the population increased 32 per cent.