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There are 53 counties in the  state of North Dakota.
 

 

  		 

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Morton County, North Dakota

Morton County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Mandan
Year Organized: 1873
Square Miles: 1,926		 Court House:

210 2nd Avenue, NW
County Courthouse
Mandan, ND 58554-3124
Etymology - Origin of County Name

named for Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (1823-1877), governor of Indiana during the Civil War and a U. S. Senator from that state when the county was established.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Created by the 1872-73 territorial legislature and named for Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (1823-1877), governor of Indiana during the Civil War and a U. S. Senator from that state when the county was established. Government organized: March 23, 1878, but the action of the 1879 legislature in attaching the eastern portion of Morton County to Burleigh effectively nullified this action; re-organized February 18, 1881, after the detached portion had been returned to Morton County by that year's legislature. County Seat: Lincoln, 1878-1879; Mandan, 1881-present.

 

Neighboring Counties:
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Cities and Towns:
- Almont city Incorporated Area
- Captain's Landing township  
- East Morton UT  
- Flasher city Incorporated Area
- Freda township  
- Glen Ullin city Incorporated Area
- Hebron city Incorporated Area
- Judson township  
- Lark township  
- Mandan (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- New Salem city Incorporated Area
- West Morton UT
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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