Map of Horace city, North Dakota

Horace is a city in Cass County, North Dakota, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,085.

The city is a suburb of the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. It is the sixteenth-largest city in North Dakota. Horace was founded in 1882 at a time of widespread European-American settlement in the territory.

Horace city overview:
Name:	Horace city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	North Dakota
County:	Cass County
Founded:	1882
Elevation:	915 ft (279 m)
Total Area:	11.65 sq mi (30.17 km²)
Land Area:	11.65 sq mi (30.17 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.01 km²)
Total Population:	3,085
Population Density:	264.88/sq mi (102.27/km²)
ZIP code:	58047
Area code:	701
FIPS code:	3838900
GNISfeature ID:	1029530
Website:	cityofhorace.com

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History

A post office has been in operation at Horace since 1875. The city is named after Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York, editor of the New York Tribune. Greeley encouraged western settlement with the motto “Go West, young man”.

The city is bordered on the west by the Sheyenne River, a tributary of the Red River. To reduce damage from seasonal flooding, which sometimes was severe, the state and federal government collaborated on the Sheyenne Diversion Project, constructing a canal and associated support in 1990–1992 to move Sheyenne flood waters to the west and south of Horace, and north past the western side of West Fargo. This has proved its worth, protecting the Sheyenne cities from damage that resulted from the large 1997 Red River flood, which destroyed areas of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks to the north.