Solen is a city in Sioux County, North Dakota, United States and on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The population was 70 at the 2020 census.
The town has a gas station and automotive repair shop called Hoffman's Garage which has been family owned and operated since the early 1900s.
History
Solen was founded in 1910 along a Northern Pacific Railway branch line that ran from Mandan to Mott. The name comes from Mary Louise Van Solen, the half-Lakota and half-French daughter of Eagle Woman (Matilda Galpin) and one of the first schoolteachers on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
Geography
Solen is located along the Cannonball River, west of the Missouri.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.