The Hannah–Snowflake Border Crossing connects the towns of

Hannah, North Dakota Hannah is a city in Cavalier County, North Dakota, Cavalier County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 8 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Hannah was founded in 1897. Geography Hannah is located at (48.973119, -98.69063 ...

and

Snowflake, Manitoba Snowflake is a small community in the Municipality of Pembina in Manitoba, Canada near the Canada–United States border. It is the birthplace of ice hockey player Justin Falk, and was the first ecclesiastical posting for the sixth Bishop of Cal ...

on the

Canada–United States border The border between Canada and the United States is the longest international border in the world. The terrestrial boundary (including boundaries in the Great Lakes, Atlantic, and Pacific coasts) is long. The land border has two sections: Can ...

. It is connected by 91st Avenue NE in

Cavalier County, North Dakota Cavalier County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. It is south of the Canada–US border with Manitoba. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,704. Its county seat is Langdon. The city of Cavalier is in nearby Pembina County ...

on the American side and Provincial Road 242 in the Municipality of Louise, Manitoba on the Canadian side. Both Hannah and Snowflake once were thriving small farm communities, and both rapidly declined in population when their respective railroads were abandoned. The

BNSF BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...

rail line now terminates in

Langdon, North Dakota Langdon is a city in Cavalier County, North Dakota, Cavalier County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Cavalier County. The population was 1,909 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Langdon was designated as the count ...

and Hannah's population has declined from 253 in 1960 to 15 in 2010. The population of Snowflake is now 2. Consequently, the volume of traffic that uses this border crossing has also declined. The average volume of traffic per calendar month is around 100 cars and fewer than ten trucks. One strategy for the expenditure of

Recovery Act The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. Developed in response to the Gr ...

funds was the construction of new border stations, so in 2012, in spite of the low traffic volumes, the US built a new large border station, replacing the facility it built in 1961. The Canada border station of Snowflake was built in 1952, and was slated to be replaced in 2017. but this apparently never occurred.

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Canada–United States border crossings 1889 establishments in Manitoba 1889 establishments in North Dakota Buildings and structures in Cavalier County, North Dakota {{NorthDakota-geo-stub

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