Chaffee, North Dakota

Chaffee is a town in Cass County, North Dakota.

History

The post office of Chaffee, was established on April 21 in 1894. The site was renamed to honor Eben Chaffee, who had promoted the site. In 1966, the post office was closed.

Herbert Fuller Chaffee (Eben's son) was a first-class passenger aboard the RMS Titanic, with his wife Carrie Constance Toogood. She survived, but his body was never recovered.^[1]

The town is home to the Bronco Bar and Chaffee Cafe.

References

^ Helm, Merry (April 21, 2004). "Dakota Datebook - April 21, 2004 - "Chaffee"". North Dakota Public Radio. Archived from the original on 2008-07-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20080716104324/http://www.prairiepublic.org/programs/datebook/bydate/04/0404/042104.jsp. Retrieved 2008-10-19.

Municipalities and communities of Cass County, North Dakota, USA

County seat: Fargo

Cities	Alice Amenia Argusville Arthur Ayr Briarwood Buffalo Casselton Davenport Enderlin‡ Fargo Frontier Gardner Grandin‡ Harwood Horace Hunter Kindred Leonard Mapleton North River Oxbow Page Prairie Rose Reile's Acres Tower City‡ West Fargo

Townships	Addison Amenia Arthur Ayr Barnes Bell Berlin Buffalo Casselton Chaffee Clifton Cornell Davenport Dows Durbin Eldred Empire Erie Everest Fargo Gardner Gill Gunkel Harmony Harwood Highland Hill Howes Hunter Kinyon Lake Leonard Maple River Mapleton Noble Normanna Page Pleasant Pontiac Raymond Reed Rich Rochester Rush River Stanley Tower Walburg Warren Watson Wheatland Wiser

CDPs	Brooktree Park Embden Erie Wheatland

Unincorporated communities	Absaraka Chaffee Durbin Erie Junction Everest Fife Hickson Lynchburg Magnolia Mason Myra Newman Nolan Norman Pinkham Prosper Saint Benedict Vance Walden Warren Wild Rice Woods

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties