Welcome to Wells County ND History and Genealogy Presented by North Dakota Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails The county was founded in 1883 by territorial legislation (predating statehood). It was named after Oscar M. Towner (b. 1842, d. 1897). He was a member of the United States House of Representatives. After founding, the county government was fully organized on January 24, 1884. 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. Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Wills/Legal Records County History Court Records Deaths Newspapers Obituaries Marriages Military Website Updates:   Townships Berlin Bilodeau Bremen Bull Moose Cathay Chaseley Crystal Lake Delger Fairville Forward Fram Germantown Haaland Hamburg Hawksnest Heimdal Hillsdale Johnson Lynn Manfred Norway Lake Oshkosh Pony Gulch Progress Rusland Saint Anna Silver Lake South Cottonwood Speedwell Sykeston Valhalla Wells West Norway West Ontario Western Woodward Villages, Towns and Cities Bowdon Bremen Cathay Chaseley Fessenden Hamberg Harvey Heaton Hurdsfield Sykeston Surrounding Counties Benson County (north) Eddy County (East) Foster County (east) Stutsman County (southeast) Kidder County (south) Sheridan County (west) Pierce County (northwest) Back to North Dakota Genealogy Trails Back to Genealogy Trails Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.