Editing Kief, North Dakota (section)

==History==
Kief was founded in 1908 as a station along the [[Soo Line Railroad]]. The city was named by [[Black Sea German]] settlers after the city of [[Kyiv]] in [[Ukraine]] (formerly [[Kiev Governorate|Kievan Governorate]] of [[Russian Empire|Russia]]).<ref name=barnes>{{cite book |last= Williams |first= Mary Ann (Barnes) |title= Origins of North Dakota Place Names |publisher= [[Bismarck Tribune]] |location= [[Bismarck, North Dakota]] |pages= 155|year= 1966 |oclc= 431626}}</ref><ref name=wick>{{cite book |author= Wick, Douglas A. |title= North Dakota Place Names |year= 1988 |publisher= Hedemarken Collectibles |location= [[Bismarck, North Dakota]] |pages=102 |isbn=0-9620968-0-6 |oclc=191277027}}</ref> Kief was the transliteration for Kyiv at the time.<ref name=wick/> A post office was established in 1909<ref name=postoffices>{{cite book | author= Patera, Alan H. |author2=John S. Gallagher |title= North Dakota Post Offices, 1850-1982 |year= 1982 |publisher= The Depot |location= [[Burtonsville, Maryland]] |pages=81–83 |oclc= 09763647}}</ref> and the town was later incorporated as a [[village]] in 1916.<ref name=bluebook/> It achieved a peak population of 307 in 1920.<ref name=ND1920>{{cite web |author=U.S. Census Bureau |author-link=United States Census Bureau|url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/06229686v32-37ch2.pdf |title= Number and Distribution of Inhabitants, North Dakota |work=Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920 |publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]] |year=1921|access-date=July 20, 2008}}</ref> It became a [[city]] in 1967, after the [[North Dakota Legislature]] enacted legislation that eliminated all existing incorporation titles for towns and villages in the state.<ref name=bluebook>{{cite book|last=North Dakota Secretary of State |author-link=North Dakota Secretary of State |title=North Dakota Centennial Blue Book |publisher=North Dakota Legislative Assembly |year=1989 |location=Bismarck, ND |pages=500 & 507 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZKEOgAACAAJ}}</ref>