Editing Landa, North Dakota (section)

==History==
The extension westward of the railroad in 1903 led to the establishment of Landa along the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]].<ref name=wick>{{Cite book | author=Wick, Douglas A. | title=North Dakota Place Names | year=1988 | publisher=Hedemarken Collectibles | isbn=0-9620968-0-6 }}</ref> Originally named Strabane, [[Norwegian people|Norwegian]] immigrants renamed it after Daniel D. Landa and Theodore T. Landa, early settlers in the area.<ref name=wick/><ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Mary Ann (Barnes) |title=Origins of North Dakota place names|publisher=Bismarck tribune, 1966|location=Bismarck, North Dakota|year=1966|pages=35|oclc=431626}}</ref>

Landa once had a bank, a hardware store, a lumber yard, a hotel, and other business establishments.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} Landa incorporated as a city in 1922, and showed a population of 140 during the [[1930 United States census|1930 Census]].<ref>{{cite web |author=U.S. Census Bureau |author-link=United States Census Bureau|url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/03815512v1ch08.pdf|title= Number and Distribution of Inhabitants, North Dakota |work=Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930 |publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]] |year=1931|access-date=July 20, 2008}}</ref>