Burke County North Dakota Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Genealogy Trails website is available for adoption! If you are interested in becoming the County Host of this website, read our volunteer information page and email Kim. Until we get a dedicated volunteer to maintain this site, we'll do the best we can to add data as we come across it. You can send your family's raw data (birth/marriage/death, cemetery, census, biography records) to us and we'll include it on this site.   Created by the proclamation of Gov. John Burke, for whom it is named, on July 12, 1910, after a contested election and extensive litigation resulted in its separation from Ward County. Burke (1859-1937) was a politically successful Democrat in an essential Republican state who served three terms as Governor, 1907-1913, was Treasurer of the United States in the Woodrow Wilson administration and ended his career as justice of the state supreme court, 1924-37. Government organized: July 15, 1910. County Seat: Bowbells, 1910-present. [source: E-referencedesk.com] Cities and Unincorporated Communities Bowbells Columbus Coteau Flaxton Larson Lignite Portal Powers Lake Townships Adelaide Amor Burke Boyesen Buena Vista Fischbein Gascoyne Gem Goldfield Grainbelt Grand River Haley Ladd Langberg Marion Minnehaha Nebo Rhame Scranton Star Stillwater Sunny Slope Talbot Whiting Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Churches Wills/Legal Records County History Court Records Newspapers Obituaries Marriages Military Website Updates: Aug 2011: DIGNAN obit July 2010: Bios for DAVIDSON, ENDRESON, HENDRICKSON  MAILING LIST Don't miss a website update! Click here to sign up for one or more of our mailing lists. North Dakota is covered on our UPPER MIDWEST mailing list. Surrounding Counties Renville (east) Ward (southeast) Mountrail (south) Williams (southwest) Divide (west) Surrounding Rural Municipalities Located to the North in Saskatchewan, Canada Estevan No. 5 Coalfields No. 4 Village of North Portal Enniskillen No. 3   Return to North Dakota Genealogy Trails Return to Genealogy Trails Home Page Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.