Editing Bottineau, North Dakota (section)

==History==
[[File:PierreBottineau1855.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Pierre Bottineau]]
Bottineau was founded in 1883 as Oak Creek as a customs station and an overnight stagecoach stop. The town name was changed to Bottineau in 1884 in honor of [[Pierre Bottineau]] {{nowrap|({{circa|1814}}–1895),}} a [[Métis]] pioneer, hunter, and trapper, who became a successful land speculator.

The town was originally located about 1½ miles (2½ km) north of its current location. The entire town was moved south in 1887 to where the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]] was installing new tracks.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 20, 2009 |title=Bottineau Quasquicentennial |url=https://www.kxnet.com/getArticle.asp?s=rss&ArticleId=394118 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723112355/http://www.kxnet.com/getArticle.asp?s=rss&ArticleId=394118 |archive-date=July 23, 2011 |access-date=April 21, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref>

The widest tornado on record in North Dakota, at 1.14 miles wide, dropped near Bottineau in 1986.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=William |title=North Dakota Tornadoes Twisters & Cyclones |publisher=Valley Star Publications |year=2024 |isbn=979-8-89480-378-4 |location=Dickinson, ND |pages=67}}</ref> It destroyed a mobile home but did not harm the pregnant woman who was inside.<ref name=":0" />

In 2012, a new chalet called Annie's House was built in Bottineau Winter Park, {{convert|10|mi|spell=in}} north. The facility was North Dakota's first ski facility for handicapped children and wounded veterans. It was built to honor Ann Nicole Nelson, who was the only North Dakotan to die in the [[September 11 attacks]] on the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]].<ref>[http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/568838/Building-Annie-s-House.html?nav=5010 Building Annie’s House published in the Minot Daily News on September 9, 2012]</ref>