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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hettinger County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on March 9, 1883. The county name was chosen by territorial legislator Erastus A. Williams, to honor his father-in-law, Mathias K. Hettinger (1810-1890), who had been a banker and public figure in Freeport, Illinois. Adjacent Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Adams County, North Dakota. Official Website Adams County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota . As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 2,343. The county seat is Hettinger. The county was created on April 17, 1907, and organized one week later. It was named for John Quincy Adams (1848–1919), a railroad offi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sioux County, North Dakota. The county was created by proclamation of Governor Louis B. Hanna on September 3, 1914. It was named for the Native American Lakota, whose historic territory included this area. The county lies entirely within the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, forming the northernmost 30 percent of the reservation; the...
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 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 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
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McHenry County, North Dakota. Official website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873 and was named for James McHenry, an early settler of Vermillion (in present South Dakota). The county government was not organized at that time, nor was the county attached to another county for administrative and ju...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sheridan County, North Dakota. The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873, naming it for Civil War General Philip Henry Sheridan. Adjacent Counties McHenry County Pierce County Wells County McLean County Burleigh County Kidder County Cities, Townships & Communities Berlin Boone Denhoff
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Burleigh County, North Dakota. Official Website The territorial legislature created Burleigh County on January 4, 1873, annexing territory from Buffalo County. Burleigh was not organized at that time, but the organization was effected on July 16, 1873. Its boundaries were altered in 1879, 1881, 1883, and twice in 1885. It is the se...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Emmons County, North Dakota. The county was created by the Dakota Territory legislature on February 10, 1879. It was named for James A. Emmons (1845–1919), a steamboat operator and early Bismarck merchant and entrepreneur. The first non-Native settlers of Emmons County came from Europe and the eastern United States. The earliest wer...
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...
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 Eddy County, North Dakota. Official website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on March 31, 1885, with territory partitioned from Foster County. It was named for Ezra B. Eddy, a Fargo, North Dakota banker who had died a few weeks earlier. Adjacent Counties Benson County Nelson County Wells County Griggs Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Foster County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873, with lands partitioned from Pembina County. It was named for George I. Foster, a pioneer and member of the Territorial legislature. Adjacent Counties Eddy County Wells County Griggs County Stutsman County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stutsman County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873. It was not organized at that time, nor was it attached to another county for administrative or judicial purposes. It was named for Enos Stutsman, an area lawyer and politician. Adjacent Counties Foster County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Griggs County, North Dakota. Official Website The county was created by the Dakota Territory legislature on February 18, 1881. It was named for Alexander Griggs, a steamboat captain who is credited with founding Grand Forks. Adjacent Counties Barnes County Steele County Stutsman County Foster County Eddy County Nelson ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Barnes County, North Dakota. In 1872, the Dakota Territory legislature authorized Burbank County (named for Governor John A. Burbank ); in 1874 they renamed it Barnes County, for Alanson H. Barnes (1818–1890), an associate justice of the Territorial Court. It was organized at Valley City on January 6, 1879. Cities, Communities & To...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ransom County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created Ransom County on January 4, 1873. It was so named due to its military fort, which had been named Fort Ransom for Civil War veteran Major General Thomas E.G. Ransom. The fort had operated between 1867 and 1872. The county was not organized at that ...
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 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 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 Nelson County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created Nelson County on March 2, 1883. It was named in honor of Dakota territorial legislator Nelson E. Nelson. Adjacent Counties Grand Forks County Steele County Walsh County Griggs County Eddy County Benson County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grand Forks County, North Dakota. The Dakota Territory legislature created Grand Forks County on January 4, 1873. Adjacent Counties Nelson County Marshall County, Minnesota Polk County, Minnesota Steele County Traill County Walsh County Cities Emerado Gilby Grand Forks (County Seat) Inkster Larimore
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Walsh County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on May 2, 1881. It was named for George H. Walsh (1845–1913), a newspaperman and politician in Grand Forks. Adjacent Counties Pembina County Marshall County, Minnesota Kittson County, Minnesota Grand Forks County Nelson Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pembina County, North Dakota. Official Website Founded in 1867, the county was named for the Chippewa word for high bush cranberries, which grew in the area. The first Icelandic settlements in what is now North Dakota were established in Pembina County in the late 1870s. Many of the immigrants came from New Iceland near Lake Winnip...