A community center and the Log Cabin Museum are located on Main Street (U.S. Route 281).

The earliest mention of the settlement came through the Grand Forks, North Dakota-based paper, Normadden.

The Norwegian language paper mentioned the building of the section house in 1885 and the setting up of six tents in order to establish a townsite and a depot.

On December 7, 1894 at approximately 4:30 A.M., a fire began in the George Williams Livery Barn and spread to other businesses on Main Street.

When firemen arrived at the scene, they realized that the door was open, and later it was determined that the fire began in the unused box stall.

Businesses in Sheyenne included numerous department stores, meat markets, livery stables, a depot, a blacksmith shop operated by Hans Stenberg, Odegaard's Shop, a feed mill, and land companies.

A cream station, an opera house, and a variety store also existed in Sheyenne at one time.

The festivities began with a parade that covered 22 blocks that included the Fort Totten Indian Band, the Boy Scouts, and numerous merchants' floats.

A baseball game was then played between Sheyenne and New Rockford, and at 9:00 a grand ball was held at the opera house.

It created a park on the south side of Sheyenne that is now owned by the VFW, it restored the town jail, and its workers built Warsing Dam on the outskirts of the city.

In the 1940s numerous residents fought in World War II, and the Sheyenne Star ceased publication.

In 1955, the second irrigation experimental farm in North Dakota was planned on the land of Bruce Larson, while a major concern of the late 1950s was the high nitrate condition in the wells of Sheyenne.

The problem was solved by the Northern Pacific Railway Company donating their well to the City of Sheyenne.

A major event in the 1960s was the opening of the Tastee-Freez, a fast food and ice cream restaurant, in the building previously occupied by the city's fire department.

In 1977 Sheyenne won the North Dakota Community Betterment Award for its work on its projects.

Sheyenne celebrated its 125th with a demo-derby, BBQ dinner, parade, school reunion, fireworks, and a children's theater production, put on by the S.T.A.R.S.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.16 square miles (0.41 km2), all land.

[5] The city of Sheyenne and its vicinity is located in the distinct Drift Prairie region of North Dakota.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all land.

In the first months of 1903, many pupils left the Sheyenne school to attend Scandinavian Studies in Greenfield Township.

In 1908, a new school was built on the eastern side of Sheyenne and in 1930, an addition was made to the two-story brick building.

While the project was in progress, the Ostby Hall and Grace Lutheran Church were used as overflow classrooms.