Fargo, ND
Lewis & Clark, inside the triangle
Three major thoroughfares draw the border, and everything inside them is quieter than the roads suggest.
Short answer
Lewis & Clark is a Fargo neighborhood bordered by three of the city’s major thoroughfares — University Drive, Interstate 94, and 13th Avenue South. It has a genuine mix of housing types with roughly 70 percent owner-occupied, and it takes its name from Lewis and Clark Elementary School on 16th Street at 17th Avenue South.
The facts, in one place
- Bordered by University Drive, I-94, and 13th Avenue South.
- Good mix of housing types; roughly 70% owner-occupied.
- Named for Lewis and Clark Elementary, 16th Street at 17th Avenue South.
- Major-corridor edges make for easy, findable meeting places.
Bordered by roads people actually name
University Drive, 13th Avenue South, and I-94 are landmarks every Fargo resident can locate instantly, which makes this one of the easier neighborhoods to describe to a stranger. If you need someone to find you here, naming the nearest of those three and a cross street does more work than any amount of description.
The trade-off is the usual one for a neighborhood defined by arterials: quiet interior streets, loud edges, and crossings that are less pleasant on foot in winter than the map implies.
A real housing mix
About 70 percent owner-occupied with a genuine variety of housing types means this is neither a student block nor a uniform subdivision. Long-term owners, renters, and everything between share the same streets — and the same February morning where half the cars on the block will not start.
Where the help requests come from
Ordinary ones. Batteries, berms, a hand with something heavy, a walk to a car after dark. Nothing exotic, which is the point — most of what neighbors need from each other is ten minutes and a set of cables, and it is the same in every part of this city.
Questions people actually ask
Where does the neighborhood name come from?
Lewis and Clark Elementary School, on 16th Street at 17th Avenue South. North of I-94, Fargo neighborhoods generally follow elementary school boundaries.
How precise is the location the app shows?
Live help appears as a coarse area of about 500 meters, never a pin on your address.
Keep going
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Clara Barton, the neighborhood behind the hospitals
Clara Barton sits between 13th Avenue and I-94 on Fargo’s original townsite, with Lindenwood Park on its east side and the Sanford and Essentia campuses on University Drive.
Fargo, ND
South Fargo, past 32nd and still growing
Everyday help around Davies, 52nd Avenue South, and the Osgood growth — jump starts, lost items, public meeting spots. Coarse location, not your driveway.
cars
A jump start, from someone nearby
Ask an approved neighbor for jumper cables in Fargo, Moorhead, or West Fargo. Public lots. Not a mechanic, not a tow, and not 911.
hands
Heavy lifting, the neighbor with gloves
A sofa that will not turn the stair, a dresser, a campus mini-fridge in Fargo. Ask a neighbor. Not movers, and not a paid crew.
how-to
How to choose where to meet a stranger
Lit, public, populated, and easy to describe. How to choose where to meet someone you do not know in Fargo, Moorhead, or West Fargo.
help topics
What people actually ask for here
What people actually ask for in this metro: jump starts, snow, lifting, directions, walks to the car, printing, and study company.
Help Me is a community app for adults in Fargo–Moorhead. It is not a K–12 student program, not a youth chat, and not campus police.