Alfred is an unincorporated hamlet in LaMoure County

LaMoure County, North Dakota

LaMoure County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of 2010, the population was 4,139. Its county seat is LaMoure.-Geography:According to the U.S...

, North Dakota

North Dakota

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, United States

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. It was one of five towns founded by Richard Sykes

Richard Sykes (Rugby player)

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. Its population is estimated at about 10 and it consists of a few houses, a licensed boarding home, a grocery store and a Protestant church, as well as grain storage bins and a boat-dock at the small lake which borders the hamlet on the northeast. Alfred is surrounded by numerous grain farms. There are no local police, fire, medical or educational services, and its post office was closed some years ago but it is far from being a ghost town

Ghost town

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, as one website alleges even while admitting it remains populated.