Park River is a city in Walsh County, North Dakota, United States.

The controversial and often peripatetic father of John D. Rockefeller, William Avery Rockefeller, lived for a time on a 160-acre ranch in Park River that his son had purchased for him.

The senior Rockefeller lived in the town through the 1890s, even after the original property was sold by his son in 1889.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.17 square miles (5.62 km2), all land.

There were 734 housing units at an average density of 338.2 per square mile (130.6/km2).

This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters.

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