Schafer
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 47.799, -103.187
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: However, the town would still have existed if not for a land dispute between the Schafer family and the Great Northern Railway.
History
Schafer is an unincorporated area and the former county seat of McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States. The county seat was moved to Watford City, and is now a ghost town. However, the town would still have existed if not for a land dispute between the Schafer family and the Great Northern Railway. The railroad never laid tracks due to this, but grading was done to the Missouri River.