Where was Fargo (1996) filmed?

1996 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

Fargo (1996) was filmed in Bloomington, St. Louis Park, Chanhassen, Richfield, Pembina County, Hallock and 10 more places, 16 places named in its Wikipedia article's Filming section, in the United States. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as Minnesota. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

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Places per Wikipedia's Filming section

Wikipedia’s Filming section names 16 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Hallock United States

  “Hallock was a main filming location in the Coen brothers' 1996 film Fargo, substituting as a fictional version of Brainerd, Minnesota due to Hallock having a better snowfall than Brainerd during production.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Minnesota, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

Filming locations that are mapped there: United States

Also shot in these places

• Jingle All the Way 1996
• A Serious Man 2009

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