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Welcome to the USA Portal! The USA Portal is here to facilitate those researching ancestors or relatives in the United States, or elsewhere in the world but with American roots. We encourage everyone with links in the United States to communicate and explore a common ancestry. In this portal you will find sources and discussions that will help you with your research. In case you have a partic...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rockdale County, Georgia. Official Website History Rockdale County was created on October 18, 1870 and received its name from Rockdale Baptist Church (est. 1846), which was named after the granite strata that rests under the county's red clay top soil. Prior to Rockdale becoming a county, the land had been inhabited by the Creek ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ward County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on April 14, 1885 and was named for Mark Ward, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Counties during the session. For a complete list of Townships & Communities, please see Wikipedia . Adjacent Counties Renville...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sargent County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory created the county on April 9, 1883 and it was named for H. E. Sargent, a railroad executive. Adjacent Counties Ransom County Richland County Marshall County, South Dakota Brown County, South Dakota Dickey County Roberts County, South Dakota
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Morton County, North Dakota. Official Website The county was created on January 8, 1873 by the Dakota Territory legislature, using territory that had not previously been included in any county. It was named for Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (1823-1877), governor of Indiana during the American Civil War and later a United States ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Logan County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873. It was named for John A. Logan (1826-1886), a Civil War general and United States Senator from Illinois. The county government was not organized at that time, but the county was not attached to another county for admi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fargo, North Dakota. Fargo is the county seat of Cass County and is the most populous city in the state. Official Website Historically part of Sioux (Dakota) territory, the area that is present-day Fargo was an early stopping point for steamboats traversing the Red River during the 1870s and 1880s. The city was originally named "Ce...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oliver County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on April 14, 1885. It was named for Harry S. Oliver of Lisbon, North Dakota (1855-1909), a Republican politician and member of the Dakota Territory House of Representatives at the time. Adjacent Counties McLean County Burleigh Cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cass County, North Dakota. Official Website Cass County was defined by action of the Dakota Territory legislature on January 4, 1873, and its organization was effected on October 27 of that year. It was named for railroad executive George Washington Cass (1810 - 1888). Adjacent Counties Norman County, Minnesota Clay County, Mi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Steele County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on June 2, 1883 and was named for businessman Edward H. Steele, who had pushed for its creation. Adjacent Counties Grand Forks County Traill County Nelson County Griggs County Barnes County Cass County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cavalier County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created Cavalier County on January 4, 1873 with territory annexed from Pembina County, but did not organize the county government structure at that time. It was named for Charles Cavileer (or Cavalier) of Pembina (1818-1902), an early settler. The coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mercer County, North Dakota. The Dakota Territory legislature enacted an January 8, 1873 law to create a county named Mercer, whose boundaries would be identical to Pratt (a now-extinct county). This county did not come into existence, as the 1873 act was nullified on January 14, 1875 by the legislature. On that date the legislature ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McIntosh County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on March 9, 1883 and was named for Edward H. McIntosh, a territorial legislator at the time. Adjacent Counties Logan County LaMoure County Dickey County Campbell County, South Dakota Emmons County McPherson County, South...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = This is the master project for North Dakota and its history. =State of North Dakota=* Nickname(s): Peace Garden State, Roughrider State, Flickertail State* Motto(s): Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable* Demonym: North Dakotan* Capital: Bismarck* Largest city: Fargo ===Please do not add profiles to the project. Add them to the appr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wells County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873. Its government was not organized at that time, nor was it attached for administrative or judicial purposes to another county. It was named Gingras County; this name continued until February 26, 1881, when the name was...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bowman County, North Dakota. Official Website The legislature of the Dakota Territory designated Bowman (named for Edward M. Bowman, a member of the territorial House of Representatives during the 1883 session) as a separate county on March 8, 1883, although it was not organized at that time. In 1885, its boundaries were altered to ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Richland County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873 and was named for Morgan T. Rich, who settled on the site of the future Wahpeton in 1869. Adjacent Counties Cass County Clay County, Minnesota Wilkin County, Minnesota Ransom County Sargent County Mars...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kidder County, North Dakota. The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873 and was named for Jefferson Parrish Kidder, a delegate to the United States Congress from Dakota Territory (1875–1879) and associate justice of the territorial supreme court (1865-1875, 1879-1883). The county government was effected on...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from North Dakota .At least 800 Jewish individuals filed for land between 1880 and 1916. They generally settled in clusters. Many were aided by the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society. In addition several of the earliest settlements, Painted Woods and Devils Lake , were aided by synagogues located in Minnesota's Twin Cities...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Traill County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 12, 1875. It was named for Walter John Strickland Traill, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and son of Canadian pioneer Catharine Parr Traill. Adjacent Counties Grand Forks County Polk County, Minnesota Norman C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stark County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on February 10, 1879, taking area from now-extinct Howard and Williams counties and some previously unincorporated territory. It was named for George Stark, a vice president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Adjacent Counties Dunn Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McLean County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on March 8, 1883 and was named for John A. McLean, the first mayor of Bismarck. Adjacent Counties McHenry County Sheridan County Ward County Burleigh County Oliver County Dunn County
This subportal is part of the State of North Dakota Portal and the Cemeteries, Memorials & Graveyards Portal . Within the 372 towns and cities that make up the State of North Dakota , there are approximately 1,106 cemeteries. These range from small, private family burying grounds with only a few graves to large public cemeteries covering hundreds of acres with hundreds of thousands of ...
Wikipedia =North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, more commonly known as North Dakota State University (NDSU), is a public university in Fargo, in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of fall 2014, NDSU has 14,747 students and sits on a 258 acre (1 km²) campus. The institution was founded as North Dakota Agricultural College in 1890 as a land-grant institution. The uni...