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North Dakota Counties
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North Dakota Counties
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Steele County, North Dakota
Steele County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Finley
Year Organized: 1883
Square Miles: 712 |
Court House: PO Box 275
201 Washington Ave W
County Courthouse
Finley, ND 58230-0275
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for Edward H. Steele of Minneapolis, Minnesota
(1846-1899), secretary-treasurer of the Red River Land Co., which was largely
responsible for the county's establishment.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created by the 1883 territorial
legislature from portions of Griggs and Traill counties. Named for Edward H.
Steele of Minneapolis, Minnesota (1846-1899), secretary-treasurer of the Red
River Land Co., which was largely responsible for the county's establishment.
Government organized: June 13, 1883. County Seat: Hope, 1883-1885; Sherbrooke,
1885-1919; Finley, 1919-present.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Beaver Creek |
township |
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- Broadlawn |
township |
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- Carpenter |
township |
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- Colgate |
township |
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- Easton |
township |
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- Edendale |
township |
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- Enger |
township |
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- Finley
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Franklin |
township |
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- Golden Lake |
township |
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- Greenview |
township |
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- Hope |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hugo |
township |
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- Luverne |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Melrose |
township |
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- Newburgh |
township |
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- Primrose |
township |
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- Sharon |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sherbrooke |
township |
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- Westfield |
township |
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- Willow Lake |
township |
County Resources:
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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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