Dickey County North Dakota Genealogy and History presented by Genealogy Trails 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. Dickey County was created from the western part of Pembina County in 1873 and named by the Territorial Legislature for Charles Cavileer, a well known fur trader, customs agent and postmaster. The spelling has always been Dickey. After petitioning the Territorial Governor for permission to organize the county, Patrick McHugh, W. Hudson Matthews, and L.C. Noracong met for the purpose on July 8, 1884. The site of the new county seat was chosen at this meeting and named Langdon for Robert Bruce Langdon of Minnesota, a federal railroad official who never visited the town. Fifteen townships from Pembina County were added to Dickey County by vote of their residents in May 1885. A census taken at that time revealed 5,029 residence living in nine large townships. The nine townships names used in 1885 are still used. The current boundaries and township names were standardized in 1906. The first court house was built in the fall of 1884. It was used briefly and then abandoned for warmer and more centrally located quarters in a downtown bank. A large brick court house was built in 1895 on the present site. This building served county officials until the current court house was constructed in 1957-58. [Source: Wikipedia.org] FREE LOOK_UP OFFER Forbes Diamond Jubilee, 1905-1980 Forbes Centennial, 1905-2005 Email Marge Cities and Unincorporated Communities Ellendale Forbes Fullerton Ludden Monango Oakes Townships Ada Albertha Albion Bear Creek Clement Divide Elden Elm German Grand Valley Hamburg Hudson James River Valley Kent Kentner Keystone Lorraine Lovel Maple Northwest Port Emma Porter Potsdam Spring Valley Valley Van Meter Whitestone Wright Yorktown Young Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Churches Wills/Legal Records County History Court Records Newspapers Obituaries Marriages Military Website Updates: July 2011: gossip news for HOFER July 2010: Bios for BARNES, DAVIS, KNOX 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 LaMoure (north) Ransom (northeast) Sargent (east) McIntosh (west) Brown County, SD (south) McPherson County, SD (southwest) 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.