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North Dakota Counties
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North Dakota Counties
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Mountrail County, North Dakota
Mountrail County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Stanley
Year Organized: 1873
Square Miles: 1,824 |
Court House: P.O. Box 69
County Courthouse
Stanley, ND 58784-0069
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for Joseph Mountraille, a Metis voyageur of some
prominence.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created as Mountraille County by the
1872-73 territorial legislature and named for Joseph Mountraille, a Metis
voyageur of some prominence. Mountraille County was eliminated by action of the
1891 state legislature. Its re-establishment as Mountrail County resulted from
an effort to partition Ward County during the November 1908 general election
which resulted in the county's existence being officially proclaimed on January
25, 1909. Government organized: January 29, 1909. County Seat: Stanley,
1909-present.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Alger |
township |
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- Austin |
township |
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- Banner |
township |
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- Bicker |
township |
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- Big Bend |
township |
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- Brookbank |
township |
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- Burke |
township |
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- Clearwater |
township |
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- Cottonwood |
township |
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- Crane Creek |
township |
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- Crowfoot |
township |
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- Debing |
township |
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- Egan |
township |
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- Fertile |
township |
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- Howie |
township |
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- Idaho |
township |
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- James Hill |
township |
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- Kickapoo |
township |
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- Knife River |
township |
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- Liberty |
township |
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- Lostwood |
township |
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- Lowland |
township |
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- Manitou |
township |
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- McAlmond |
township |
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- McGahan |
township |
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- Model |
township |
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- Mountrail |
township |
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- Myrtle |
township |
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- New Town |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Oakland |
township |
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- Osborn |
township |
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- Osloe |
township |
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- Palermo |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Parshall |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Plaza |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Powers |
township |
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- Purcell |
township |
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- Rat Lake |
township |
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- Redmond |
township |
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- Ross |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Shell |
township |
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- Sidonia |
township |
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- Sikes |
township |
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- Sorkness |
township |
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- Southwest Mountrail |
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- Spring Coulee |
township |
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- Stanley
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stave |
township |
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- Van Hook |
township |
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- Wayzetta |
township |
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- West Mountrail |
UT |
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- White Earth |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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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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