North Dakota holds very few Amazon buildings and generates a striking number of searches about them,
because when a state has one significant facility everybody in it sees the same code. Roughly one in
four queries reaching this page is somebody looking up a facility code, and almost all of them are
looking up the same one.
The short version in numbers: 3 North Dakota facilities on record, 2 of
them carrying a published facility code, spread across 3
distinct facility types. The full breakdown is below.
If you are trying to identify a code from your tracking, start with the table below. It lists every North Dakota facility we hold, alongside its address and type. Search the page for your code. Codes that do not appear here generally sit just over a state line, and I’d treat that as ordinary rather than alarming.
Every Amazon facility in North Dakota
3 facilities, of which 2 have a published code: 1 delivery station, 1 distribution center, 1 fulfillment center.
| Code | Address | ZIP | Type | County |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WND1 | 700 Main Ave E, West Fargo, ND 58078 | 58078 | Delivery Station | Cass |
| (not listed) | 30th St SW, Dickinson, ND | 58601 | Distribution Center | Stark |
| FAR1 | 3737 44th Ave N, Fargo, ND | 58102 | Fulfillment Center | Cass |
Addresses are compiled from public listings. Amazon opens, closes, and repurposes buildings
continually, and no facility on this list accepts visitors or takes calls about individual
parcels, which is why we do not publish site phone numbers.
The North Dakota codes people look up most
Two codes account for nearly every search reaching this page.
- FAR1 is a fulfillment center at 3737 44th Ave N in Fargo, and it draws the overwhelming majority
of North Dakota searches. Because it holds inventory, a parcel scanned there has usually not been
packed for you yet. - WND1 is a delivery station at 700 Main Ave E in West Fargo, so a parcel there is close to
arriving.
FAR is Fargo’s airport code. The pair is unusually easy to read: one storage building, one last-mile
building, and little else in the state.
Fargo, and then a very long drive
Cass County holds most of the state’s facilities, with Stark County holding one. By town, Fargo, West
Fargo, and Dickinson each appear once.
Fargo is the whole story. It sits on I-94 at the Minnesota border, roughly 240 miles from
Minneapolis, and it is the largest city in North Dakota by a wide margin. The facilities there serve
the eastern half of the state and reach into western Minnesota.
Dickinson, in Stark County, sits about 300 miles west along I-94, closer to Montana than to Fargo, and
covers the western end.
Between and around them, the distances are the defining feature. Bismarck, Minot, Grand Forks, and
the rural counties are served across long stretches of open country, and winter is severe enough to
affect reliability for several months of the year. I’d expect delivery promises across most of the
state to run longer than a comparable address in a denser state, and that is not going to change,
because the population does not justify more buildings.
Expect Minnesota codes in eastern North Dakota tracking. Fargo and Moorhead sit on opposite banks of
the Red River in different states and function as one market.
What it means when your parcel is at one of these
The type of building tells you how far along the journey is. I’ve found that single distinction
resolves most of the anxiety people arrive with.
A fulfillment center is where inventory sits, so your order has probably not been packed. A
sortation center only ever sees packed parcels and groups them by region. A delivery station
is the last building before the van, so a parcel there is normally close to home. Our guide to the different types of Amazon warehouse
covers what happens inside each, and sortation center versus fulfillment center
covers the pair people confuse most.
One caveat about the codes. The naming scheme has never been published by Amazon, so
decoders you find elsewhere are guesswork dressed as documentation. A leading D does reliably tend to
indicate a delivery station. Past that, I’d trust the type column in the table rather than trying to
read meaning into three letters, since I’ve found the exceptions turn up constantly.
If the parcel has stopped moving entirely, our guide to what a carrier delay means
covers how long to wait before it is worth doing anything, and our guide to
a disappeared order covers the case where
the order itself has vanished from your account rather than the parcel from the network.
If your code is not on this list
If you have searched this page and come up empty, that is a normal outcome rather than a
problem, and I’d resist the urge to read anything into it. Four explanations cover almost every case.
It is a facility in an adjoining state. By far the most likely. Distribution networks ignore
state boundaries entirely, and in our experience people are far more surprised by this than the
logistics justify.
It opened after this listing was compiled. Amazon adds buildings constantly and any published
list trails reality by some margin.
It is a partner code, not an Amazon one. Contracted carriers and third-party logistics firms
issue their own facility identifiers that will never appear here.
The characters were misread. Zero and O, one and I, five and S all trip people up. I’ve found
this explains a surprising share of codes that appear not to exist.
In every one of those cases the useful response is the same: let the tracking update rather than
chase the building.
Other Amazon buildings you may see in tracking
A handful of other facility types show up in tracking, and knowing them removes a lot of
needless worry.
Air hubs exist to fly freight between regions rather than to pick orders, so a scan at one can
place your parcel somewhere that looks like a detour and is not. Receive centers, or cross-docks,
accept bulk freight direct from manufacturers and break it down for distribution, so nothing there
belongs to a customer yet. Amazon Warehousing and Distribution sites store bulk stock upstream
and replenish fulfillment centers automatically. Returns centers grade returned merchandise.
Third-party partner sites are leased or contracted buildings rather than Amazon-owned ones.
When I have followed an unusual scan back, it has almost always been one of these rather than a
fault.
Visiting, calling, and collecting
A point people frequently test before believing: these are not places you can visit.
Fulfillment centers, sortation centers, and delivery stations take no visitors, release no parcels
over a counter, and staff no desk that can discuss an individual order. Collection happens at Amazon
Locker and Amazon Hub Counter locations instead, which have nothing to do with the buildings above.
Phone numbers deserve the same treatment. Some facility lists publish them; I’d skip them entirely.
They reach switchboards with no access to order records, and in my experience the call achieves
nothing that Amazon customer service would not have handled immediately.
What to take from North Dakota as a seller
Briefly, because there is not much and padding it would be dishonest.
North Dakota is a small market served by a small network. Placement is Amazon’s decision through
Send to Amazon, and only fulfillment centers hold seller inventory, of which our listing shows one.
The useful general point is about how thin-network states behave. When a state has one significant
facility, delivery reliability there depends on a single building and a long road, which means
weather and distance produce more variance than in a dense state. If a meaningful share of your
customers are in the northern plains, expect a higher rate of late deliveries between December and
March, and remember that those affect your On-Time Delivery Rate regardless of cause. Our guide to
what a carrier delay means covers that
asymmetry.
Temperature-sensitive goods deserve a second thought here too. Winter conditions in the northern
plains exceed what most packaging was tested against.
How to read this page, and what it cannot tell you. I’d rather set expectations than have
you draw the wrong conclusion from a table.
The list is compiled from public listings, so it lags Amazon’s actual network and always will. A
building that closed last quarter may still appear; one that opened last month probably does not.
The type column reflects what those listings recorded, and in our experience it is right far more
often than not, without being infallible.
What the page is genuinely good for is identifying a code you have in front of you and working out
roughly where your parcel sits in the chain. What it is not good for is counting Amazon’s real estate
precisely, and I’d treat any site claiming an exact national figure with some suspicion.
FAQ
How many Amazon warehouses are in North Dakota?
Very few. The complete list with codes and addresses appears in the table above, concentrated in the
Fargo area with one site in Dickinson.
What is FAR1?
FAR1 is Amazon’s fulfillment center at 3737 44th Ave N in Fargo. It is by far the most searched North
Dakota facility code, and because it stores inventory, a parcel scanned there has usually not been
packed yet.
What is the difference between FAR1 and WND1?
FAR1 is a fulfillment center in Fargo, which stores inventory and packs orders. WND1 is a delivery
station in West Fargo, which handles parcels that are already packed, so a WND1 scan means your parcel
is close to arriving.
Why is Amazon delivery slower in western North Dakota?
Because Bismarck, Minot, and the western counties are served across long distances from Fargo, with
one site in Dickinson covering the far west. Winter compounds it for several months a year.
Why do I see Minnesota codes on a North Dakota order?
Because Fargo and Moorhead sit on opposite banks of the Red River in different states and function as
one market. Cross-border routing there is normal.
Does North Dakota hold seller inventory?
Only at the Fargo fulfillment center. The other facilities handle parcels picked and packed elsewhere.
Sellers cannot choose their inbound destination in any case.
Last updated: August 30, 2026. Compiled from public listings; Amazon’s facility network changes
continually and this page will lag it. Facilities do not accept visitors or handle parcel
inquiries. For warehouse employment, Amazon’s own hiring site carries current openings and is
the only accurate source.
