Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Dakota
- County
- Benson
- Total
- 0.67 sq mi (1.73 km )
- Land
- 0.63 sq mi (1.64 km )
- Water
- 0.035 sq mi (0.09 km )
- Elevation
- 1,516 ft (462 m)
- Density
- 698.7/sq mi (269.78/km )
- Time zone
- UTC–6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC–5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 38-45580
- Website
- leedsnorthdakota.com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Leeds is a city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 442 at the 2020 census.
Leeds was founded in 1887 and named after Leeds, England. It was one of several sites along the Great Northern Railway's transcontinental route between Devils Lake and Minot that were named after places in England (the others were Berwick, Norwich, Penn, Rugby, Surrey, Tunbridge, and York).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leeds” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.