Editing Leal, North Dakota (section)

==History==
[[File:Park in Leal, North Dakota.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Bell display outside a park in Leal, listing the year of the city's founding "1892"]]
Scottish-English emigrants from [[Ontario, Canada|Ontario]], Canada, originally settled in this area in 1883. The townsite of Leal was [[plat]]ted in 1892, and a post office established December 28, 1892. Officials with the [[Soo Line Railroad]] established a [[train station|station]] here in 1902.<ref name=wick/><ref name=barnes/>

Leal incorporated as a [[village]] in 1917 from part of [[Edna Township, Barnes County, North Dakota|Edna Township]].<ref name=census1920/> It became a [[city]] in 1967, after the [[North Dakota Legislature]] eliminated [[municipal corporation|incorporation]] titles for villages and [[town]]s. As a result, all incorporated municipalities in North Dakota automatically adopted a city form of government.<ref name=centennial/>