Lefor is an unincorporated community in southern Stark County, North Dakota, United States.

[5] Lefor has the highest percentage of residents of Hungarian origin of any zip code in the United States.

[6] Most are descended from pioneers -- who were actually ethnically German -- from the Banat region who were invited to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Dakota Territory was acquired in the early nineteenth century, and the United States government began settling the area despite resistance from displaced natives.

Lefor was settled primarily by German-Hungarian immigrants from the Banat region who claimed land under the Homestead Act beginning in the 1890s.