[3] Dilworth is one of the core cities of the Fargo–Moorhead metro area; it is on the eastern border of Moorhead.

[6] Dilworth, originally named Richardson, was established as a station by the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1883.

Until 1906 Dilworth was a small station with a siding serving two grain elevators and had no depot building or agent.

By July 1906, the Northern Pacific had purchased nearly 500 acres of land around the Dilworth siding for the new headquarters.

A main feature of the facility was the roundhouse, a huge building shaped like a donut with a bite out of it.

In 1918, J. M. Manning was elected Mayor, O. Wirud, Clerk, with M. J. Peirsol appointed Street Commissioner and L. G. Hanson as Treasurer.

This encompassed the northeastern quarter of Moorhead Township, home to eight school age children.

In 1905, District 81 built a new one-room school a half mile south of today’s Dilworth Community Center.

The District built a new, much larger school just south of the present Dilworth Elementary.

Through the efforts of Moorhead Presbyterian minister Dugald McIntyre, the church broke ground May 15, 1907.

Their very active ladies aid society raised money through a series of bake sales and socials.

According to a typescript history from the church, in 1907, Father Charles Cannon of Moorhead’s St. Joseph’s parish visited the townsite to take a survey of Dilworth’s Catholics and "to determine local interest in forming a mission church."

The effort had limited success, but over the next few years Father Gerard Speilman of St. Joseph’s celebrated mass in private homes.

In late July, Moorhead’s Ballord-Trimble Lumber Company opened a yard at the rapidly growing village.

A few days later Olaus Anderson opened a general store on the corner of today’s Center Avenue and Main Street.

Two weeks after that, Rasmus Haugsted opened another general store half a block north.

By 1910, Dilworth was also home to a bank, two hotels, a grocery, a dairy, a meat market, a bakery, at least two restaurants and a barbershop.

Dilworth, a city in Moorhead Township, incorporated as a village on August 17, 1911; the community began in 1883 as a railroad siding, called Richardson for a few months, then renamed to honor coffee importer Joseph Dilworth, one of the original stockholders and a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad, residing in Pittsburgh, Pa., who purchased 4,000 acres in the vicinity and became one of the largest landholders along the railroad.

Amtrak’s Empire Builder, which operates between Seattle/Portland and Chicago, passes through the town on BNSF tracks, but makes no stop.