Bucyrus, ND

Bucyrus is a city, without paved roads, in Adams County, North Dakota, United States. The 2020 census counted 18 residents. The city was founded in 1907 along the Milwaukee Road's transcontinental rail line known as the Pacific Extension. Before being named Bucyrus in 1908, the city was called first Wolf Butte and then Dolan, which was ultimately rejected due to similarity with Doland, South Dakota. The short version is that Bucyrus carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Bucyrus: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The new name Bucyrus was taken from the Bucyrus Company steam shovels used to build the railroad grade within the city.