Williston

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Williston, North Dakota serves as the county seat of Williams County. By 2010, the City of Williston has a population just below 15,000, according to the most recent census, that makes it North Dakota's 9th largest city. Williston was established during 1887. The city's name is derived from Daniel Willis James. He was a member of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. His friend, James J. Hill, a railroad owner, named the city to honor him.

The Williston Herald is the city's newspaper and is available both in print and online. The Sloulin Field International Airport services the area as the only international airport. This is a public airport located 2 miles north of the business district. The Miss Dakota Scholarship Pageant and Williston State College are both located here.

While historically agricultural based, Williston's economy has been increasingly driven by the oil industry in recent years. Williston is situated on top of the Bakken formation. This site is predicted to be making more oil than any other region in the United States by the end of the year 2012. This site even surpasses Prudhoe Bay in Alaska State, a longtime leader in domestic output. The city has additionally seen population growth and a big increase in infrastructure investments throughout the past several years as well. There has been much expanded drilling happening which relies on the "frac" petroleum extraction method. This has been taking place in the Bakken Formation, along with the Three Forks Groups.

North Dakota State provides a website that details every day oil activity. The U.S. Geographical Survey projected during the year 1995 that there were roughly 150 million barrels of oil "technically recoverable," from the Bakken Shale. The number had increased to 4 billion barrels by the year 2008. During 2010, the geologists at the major drilling operation in the state of North Dakota, referred to as Continental Resources, projected the reserve really at 8 billion. A discovery of a lower shelf of oil during March the year 2012, announced a possibility of 24 billion barrels of oil available.

Today's current technology allows for nearly 6 percent of the oil trapped beneath the earth's surface from a range of 1 to 2 miles. According to these estimates, the recoverable oil might be able to surpass 500 billion barrels eventually.

The Williston livestock arena has weekly auctions within the area. There is also a major regional grain elevator that is served by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.

The region was once part of the history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, since Fort Buford and Fort Union and the convergence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers served as stops on this Expedition. These areas support tourism within the state of North Dakota. Moreover, Williston is also quite close to the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park which attracts many tourists every year.

Williston has various medical clinics, such as: Craven-Hagan Clinic and Fairlight Medical center, and even Trinity Medical Clinic. The only Veteran's Affairs clinic available in northwestern North Dakota is offered by Fairlight Medical Center. This resource also serves residents of northeastern Montana. Fairlight offers 4 physicians in a walk-in clinic setting. The Williston Hospital is Mercy Medical Center. They don't have a walk-in clinic but offer 24 hour trauma and emergency care.