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Hanks
Unincorporated community
Hanks, North Dakota
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Coordinates: 48°36′12″N 103°48′11″W / 48.60333°N 103.80306°W / 48.60333; -103.80306
Country	United States
State	North Dakota
County	Williams
Elevation	2,116 ft (645 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	701
GNIS feature ID	1029297

Hanks is an unincorporated community in Williams County, North Dakota, United States.

Geography

Hanks is located on North Dakota Highway 50, and has the latitude of 48.603° N, and the longitude of −103.802° W. The elevation is 2,116 feet (645 m), and is located in the Central Time Zone.

History

Hanks was founded in 1916 along a Great Northern Railway branch line that ran from Stanley to Grenora. The name honors W.F. Hanks, a banker from Powers Lake.

Hanks disincorporated in 1992.

According to a 2008 report, Hanks had only one inhabitant. The town was included in the National Geographic article The Emptied Prairie, published in January 2008.

Notable people

• A. R. Shaw, educator and legislator

References

1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hanks, North Dakota
2. Wick, Douglas A. "Hanks (Williams County)". North Dakota Place Names. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
3. "Boundary Changes".
4. Rubin, Richard (April 9, 2006). "Not far from forsaken". The New York Times. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
5. Bowden, Charles (January 2008). "The Emptied Prairie". National Geographic. Archived from the original on February 16, 2008. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
6. 'North Dakota Centennial Blue Book 1889-1989, Ben Meier (editor), North Dakota Legislative Assembly, Biosgraphical Sketch of Arch Shaw, pg. 411

v t e Municipalities and communities of Williams County, North Dakota, United States
County seat: Williston
Cities	Alamo Epping Grenora Ray Springbrook Tioga Wildrose Williston
Townships	Athens Barr Butte Big Meadow Big Stone Blacktail Blue Ridge Bonetraill Brooklyn Buford Bull Butte Champion Climax Dry Fork Dublin East Fork Ellisville Equality Farmvale Golden Valley Good Luck Grenora Hardscrabble Hazel Hebron Judson Lindahl Marshall Missouri Ridge Mont New Home Oliver Orthell Pleasant Valley Rainbow Rock Island Round Prairie Sauk Valley Scorio South Meadow Springbrook Stony Creek Strandahl Tioga Trenton Truax Twelve Mile Tyrone View West Bank Wheelock Williston Winner
Unorganized territories	Cow Creek Southeast Williams
CDPs	Blacktail Long Creek McGregor Trenton
Other communities	Appam Buford Corinth Hamlet Hanks Temple Wheelock Zahl
Indian reservation	Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation‡
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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