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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Golden Valley County, North Dakota. Official Website The county was organized on November 13, 1912. Golden Valley was called 'Rattlesnake Flats' by early settlers, due to the large number of the snakes found in the area. The region was dubbed Golden Valley in 1902 after a group of land surveyors noticed that the sunlight gave the su...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McKenzie County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on March 9, 1883, with areas partitioned from Howard County (now extinct). The county was named for Alexander McKenzie, a territorial political figure who was later disgraced for corruption. Adjacent Counties Dunn County Mountra...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Billings County, North Dakota. Official Website Billings County, North Dakota was created on February 10, 1879 from Dakota Territory. The county was named in honor of Frederick H. Billings (1823 - 1890), who was president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Adjacent Counties McKenzie County Dunn County Stark County Slope Cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dunn County, South Dakota. The county was created in 1883 and named for John Piatt Dunn, who opened the first drugstore in North Dakota, and who was a civic and commercial leader during the early history of Bismarck. Adjacent Counties Billings County McKenzie County Stark County Mountrail County McLean County Mercer County
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 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...
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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 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 Mountrail County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county (as Mountraille County) on January 4, 1873, with area annexed from Buffalo County. It was not organized at that time, nor was it attached to another county for administrative or judicial purposes. The new county lost territory in 188...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Burke County, North Dakota. Official Website A vote was held on November 3, 1908 in which county voters authorized the partition of Burke County from what was then known as 'Imperial Ward County' (which consisted of what is now Burke, Mountrail, Renville, and Ward counties). Its name recognized the state governor at the time, John B...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Divide County, North Dakota. Official Website In November 8, 1910 election, the voters of Williams County voters determined that the county should be divided into a northern and a southern county. The vote was affirmative; the southern portion retained the Williams name; the newly created county was named "Divide", with Crosby as th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Williams County, North Dakota. Official Website Williams County was created by the North Dakota legislature on March 2, 1891, from the previous counties of Buford and Flannery, which were dissolved. The government of this county was organized on December 8, 1891. It is named for Erastus Appleman Williams, a settler who served in the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in LaMoure County, North Dakota. Official Website The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873 and organized on October 27, 1881. It was named for Judson LaMoure, a territorial legislator. Adjacent Counties Barnes County Stutsman County Ransom County Dickey County Logan County McIntosh County
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...
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 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...