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North Dakota Counties
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North Dakota Counties
There are 53 counties in the state of North Dakota. |
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Burleigh County, North Dakota
Burleigh County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Bismarck
Year Organized: 1873
Square Miles: 1,633 |
Court House: 514 E Thayer Avenue
County Courthouse
Bismarck, ND 58501-4413
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for Walter Atwood Burleigh (1820-1896), a physician
attorney and railroad contractor who served as an Indian agent, delegate to
Congress from the Dakota Territory, 1865-1869, and legislator.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created by the 1872-73 territorial
legislature and named for Walter Atwood Burleigh (1820-1896), a physician
attorney and railroad contractor who served as an Indian agent, delegate to
Congress from the Dakota Territory, 1865-1869, and legislator. Government
organized: July 16, 1873. County Seat: Bismarck, 1873-present.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Apple Creek |
township |
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- Baldwin |
township |
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- Bismarck
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Boyd |
township |
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- Burnt Creek-Riverview |
UT |
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- Canfield |
township |
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- Christiania |
township |
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- Clear Lake |
township |
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- Crofte |
township |
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- Cromwell |
township |
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- Driscoll |
township |
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- Ecklund |
township |
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- Estherville |
township |
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- Florence Lake |
township |
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- Francis |
township |
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- Ghylin |
township |
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- Gibbs |
township |
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- Glenview |
township |
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- Grass Lake |
township |
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- Harriet-Lien |
township |
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- Hay Creek |
township |
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- Hazel Grove |
township |
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- Lincoln |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lincoln-Fort Rice |
UT |
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- Long Lake |
township |
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- Lyman |
UT |
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- McKenzie |
township |
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- Menoken |
township |
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- Missouri |
township |
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- Morton |
township |
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- Naughton |
township |
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- Painted Woods |
township |
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- Phoenix |
UT |
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- Regan |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Richmond |
township |
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- Rock Hill |
township |
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- Schrunk |
township |
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- Sibley Butte |
township |
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- Steiber |
township |
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- Sterling |
township |
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- Taft |
township |
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- Telfer |
township |
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- Thelma |
township |
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- Trygg |
township |
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- Wild Rose |
township |
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- Wilson |
township |
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- Wing |
city |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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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,
act locally." |
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