Welcome to Kidder County ND History and Genealogy Presented by North Dakota Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists North Dakota is covered under our "Upper Midwest" States mailing list. The county was created by the 1872-1873 territorial legislature and was named for Jefferson Parrish Kidder, an 1858 settler in what became southeastern Dakota and who served as a delegate to Congress from Dakota from 1875 to 1879, and as an associated justice of the territorial supreme court during 1865-1875 and 1879-1883.  The county was organized on March 22, 1881. County Seat:  Steele from 1881 to the present.   Townships: *Allen *Atwood *Baker *Buckeye *Bunker *Chestina *Clear Lake *Crown Hill *Crystal Springs *Excelsior *Frettim *Graf *Haynes *Kickapoo *Lake Williams *Merkel *Northwest *Peace *Petersville *Pleasant Hill *Quinby *Rexine *Sibley *Stewart *Tanner *Valley *Vernon *Wallace *Wieser *Westford *Williams *Woodlawn Cities: *Dawson *Pettibone *Robinson *Steele *Tappen *Tuttle Unincorporated Townships: *South Kidder     Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles History Marriages Military Newspaper Data Obituaries Land Notices Wills/Probate Records  Website Updates: April 2012- Land Notices - Bio for John S. Darling, Frank B. Brundage, John M.Clark, Robert L. Johnston, John S. Werner, Benjamin H. Smith, Nicklaus Kautt, John Noonan, Robert Newton Mahin Sr., William L. Ketchum, Charles H. Stanle and Joseph A. Coulter - County History Dec 2011: Miscellaneous news story for SHARP July 2010: Biographies for BOPE, SMITH; List of Cemeteries Previous Updates: Military Records Surrounding Counties  Wells County (north)   Stutsman County (east)  Logan County (south)   Emmons County (southwest) Burleigh County (west) Sheridan County (northwest)  Visit our ND State Site Visit our National Site Copyright ©2010 Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.