In 2013 the North Dakota League of Cities honored West Fargo by naming it City of the Year. When Armour and Company bought out the Equity Cooperative Packing company plant and housing for employees, North of US 10, around 1925; they asked residents to move from their homes and many moved South of the highway. This area, South of US 10, was incorporated as the Village of Southwest Fargo around 1937 and became the city of West Fargo in the late 1940’s. West Fargo maintains quite a few parks somewhere around 24 with many amenities and additional facilities such as Scheels and Towers Soccer complexes, Veterans Memorial arena and Veterans Memorial pool. Rendezvous and Maplewood parks have new warming houses.