Notable History

• The area that is now North Pole was homesteaded in 1944 by Bon V. Davis. (A fictionalized account of life on this homestead, written by his son T. Neil Davis, was published in 1997 under the title Battling Against Success.) Dahl and Gaske Development Company later purchased the Davis homestead, subdivided it, and named it North Pole, in hopes of attracting a toy manufacturer to the area. The City of North Pole was incorporated on January 15, 1953.

• On April 22, 2006, police arrested several students at North Pole Middle School for allegedly plotting a school shooting, much along the lines of the Columbine High School Massacre. A TV documentary called Death in Santaland about the town and the foiled school shooting plot was made by the British journalist Jon Ronson and broadcast on the television channel More 4 in 2007.

• In the Marvel Comics series New Avengers, the town was depicted as destroyed in "the Collective" story arc published over the course of the spring of 2006.

• The ABC reality show, Extreme Makeover Home Edition built a new house for a local family in one week in July 2006. The episode of the show was used as a premiere to the show's season, and as a kickoff point for the show's plans to rebuild a home in each state.