Ypsilanti, ND

Ypsilanti is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Stutsman County, North Dakota, United States, and the primary populated place in Ypsilanti Township. The 2020 census counted 109 residents. A portion of the townsite is located in Corwin Township. In 1879, the U.S. Government gave 621 acres of land to the Northern Pacific Railway, and part of this became Ypsilanti Township and the townsite of Ypsilanti. The short version is that Ypsilanti carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Ypsilanti: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The townsite of Ypsilanti was platted by William Hartley Colby and a partner by the name of Lloyd DePuy.