Moorhead Wedding

Moorhead is a city in Clay County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 32,177 at the 2000 census (2006 estimate: 38,346). It is the county seat of Clay County6.

The city is on the border between North Dakota and Minnesota, defined by the Red River of the North. Fargo, North Dakota is located across the river. The two communities make up the metropolitan area of Fargo-Moorhead.

The city has three institutions of higher learning: Minnesota State University Moorhead (a public university), Concordia College, (a four-year private college), and Minnesota State Community and Techical College (a two-year technical college).

Moorhead sits in the fertile Red River Valley. The land around the Fargo-Moorhead area is some of the flattest and richest (for agricultural uses) in the world. This is because it lies on the lake bed of Glacial Lake Aggasiz, which dissapeared long ago (10,000 years)

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 34.8 km (13.4 mi), all land.