Bismarck is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Grant County Grant County may refer to: Places ;Australia * County of Grant, Victoria ;United States * Grant County, Arkansas * Grant County, Indiana * Grant County, Kansas *Grant County, Kentucky Grant County is a county located in the northern pa ...

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, United States. It lies on

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and U.S. Route 48 near

Mount Storm Lake Mount Storm Lake – also known as New Stony River Reservoir – is a reservoir created in 1965 on the Stony River in Grant County, West Virginia.West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, South Charleston, WV (2003)"Mount Storm La ...

. Bismarck was named in honor of

Minister President of Prussia The Minister-President (), or Prime Minister, of Prussia was the head of government of the Prussian state. The office existed from 1848, when it was formed by Frederick William IV of Prussia, King Frederick William IV during the German revolutio ...

Otto von Bismarck Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (; born ''Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck''; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898) was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as ...

(April 1, 1815 – July 30, 1898). Because of various spellings including Bismarch and Bismark, the

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officially decided upon Bismarck in 1895.

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