DAKOTA DATEBOOK: Burlington Subsistence Homestead Project

January 30, 2025 – The town of Burlington, eight miles west of Minot, was a coal-mining town since its founding in 1883. The first Burlington mines were small operations that provided lignite coal for the local area and some for shipment to Grand Forks.By the 1920s, Burlington’s small mines struggled, due to competition from large strip mining operations and the underground mines at ...