DICKINSON, a city in the south-western part of North Da kota, U.S.A., on the Heart river and Federal highway Io, at an altitude of 2,43of t. ; the county seat of Stark county. It is a divi sion point-on the Northern Pacific Railway, which has repair shops here. The population in 193o Federal census was 5,025. Dickin son is the shipping-point for a farming and grazing region ; and has foundry and machine shops, brick works, flour-mills, lignite coal mines and a plant for the manufacture of briquettes. One of the State normal schools is located here, and the State agricul tural college has established here a branch of the agricultural experiment station. The city was settled about 1882 and incorpo rated in 1 goo. It was named after W. S. Dickinson of Malone, N.Y., an enthusiastic advocate of the country west of the Missouri.