Nelson Contracting

About Nelson Contracting

Watford City's Main Street runs a short, straight line past the McKenzie County Courthouse, and on a winter morning it's usually a plow blade that's first down that stretch, well before the shops open. Nelson Contracting works that downtown grid alongside the church lots and municipal lots on the edge of town, scraping curb to curb so delivery trucks and the early shift at the county building can park without wading through a berm. Storefront sidewalks along Main get the same treatment, cleared corner to corner rather than just a path down the middle, since foot traffic downtown skews toward folks headed to the bank or the post office on foot. A dry, cold snow here squeaks underfoot in a way a wetter storm never does, and it keeps blowing around long after it's fallen, so a lot cleared at 6 a.m. often needs a second look by nine. By midmorning, the courthouse lot and the block around it look like any other workday, gray pavement instead of white.