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Benson County, North Dakota
Benson County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Minnewaukan
Year Organized: 1883
Square Miles: 1,389
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Named: named for Bertil W. Benson, a Valley City merchant and land
dealer who served in the House of Representatives.
State & County QuickFacts:
History
Created by the 1879 territorial
legislature named for Bertil W. Benson, a Valley City merchant and land dealer
who served in the House of Representatives. Government organized: June 4, 1884.
County Seat: Minnewaukan, 1884-present.
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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Penn Foster High School
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