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N.D. (AP) — Emmons County is benefiting from hundreds of Dakota Access Pipeline workers who are living in the area.

The agrarian county is used to getting a boost from river fishing and camping folks, but large-scale industrial projects are mostly far off the county’s economic map, so all of the welders, excavators and other pipeline workers who have recently moved to town are unprecedented.

Joy Bosch, Linton’s deputy auditor, says that her office’s phone has been ringing off the hook with calls from people looking for a place to stay while they work on the pipeline. But she says there are no vacancies available.

Dakota Access Pipeline spokeswoman Lisa Dillinger says a specific construction segment such as the one in Emmons County requires about 600 to 800 workers.