| Summary: | North Dakota Place Names 773 habited the Missouri River. They call it "Miniwashitu", and say that it breaks the ice in the spring of the year as it moves upstream. The Missouri River Commission made a survey of the Missouri River in 1889-90 and their maps show that the thread of the stream channel of the river in North Dakota is 407.7 miles. Moffit—Named for Geo. W. M off it. early homesteader and local pioneer. Mohall—Named for M. O. Hall, local farmer and politician. Monango—Coined by a combination of syllables from different Indian words to meet the demand for an Indian name for the town. Montpelier—J. J. Flint and P. W. Fuller of Jamestown, both natives of Vermont, platted the townsite and named it in honor of Vermont's capital city. Mooreton—After Hugh Moore, a heavy land owner there in early days and the builder and owner of the first flour mill and grain elevator erected there. Morris—Named for Sergeant Thomas P. Morris, U. S. A., early day soldier at Ft. Totten and pioneer resident of Eddy county. He was one of the first Master Masons raised in the Jamestown lodge. Mose—After "Mose", the nickname locally bestowed upon Morris Greenland, who was working in a lumber yard there when the postoffice was established. Moselle—After the river of that name in France and Alsace- Loraine. Mott—Named for C. W. Mott, immigrant agent, N. P. Ry. Mount Carmel—Named by a Catholic missionary who passed through that vicinity in 1884. A high hill or mountain peak called Mount Maria is located some three miles north of there. Named after Mount Carmel in Syria, where the Catholic Order of "Our Lady of Mount Carmel" was founded in the Twelfth Century. Mountain—Was named for the reason that it is located at the base of the Pembina Mountains. The level Red River Valley to the east of it and the Pembina Mountains on the west of it. Mouse River—Named Souris, meaning "mouse", by the French Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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