Casselton is a city in Cass County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 2,479 at the 2020 census. making it the 20th largest city in North Dakota. Casselton was founded in 1876. The city is named in award of George Washington Cass, a president of the Northern Pacific Railway, which customary a station there in 1876 to build a town for homesteaders. Casselton is the hometown of five North Dakota governors.

Casselton had its lineage in 1873 gone the Northern Pacific Railway sent Mike Smith to tree-plant cottonwood and willow trees in the Place to help as windbreaks along the right-of-way. They planned to harvest the trees for lumber to use as railroad ties, but the experiment unsuccessful for a number of reasons.

In 1874, Emil Priewe and his wife allied Mike Smith at the station. The Priewe’s son, Harry, was born on March 28, 1875 in a sod shanty, the first child born in the developing village. Others came to have the same opinion and by 1880, the town had a population of 376, according to the approved census. A educational was organized in 1876 and the town was incorporated as a village in 1880.

The hamlet was variously called “the Nursery”, “Goose Creek” and “Swan Creek”, named for the stream that meandered through the area. In 1876, the railroad expected a station called Casstown, after George Cass, the railroad president. When the publish office was established on August 8, 1876, the post Casselton was designated.