Welcome to Williams 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 research for you. 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. County Information Founded December 8, 1891 The county seat is Williston The Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site is located in Williams County along the Missouri River on the Montana border. Townships Athens Barr Butte Big Meadow Big Stone Blacktail Blue Ridge Bonetraill Brooklyn Buford Bull Butte Champion Climax Dry Fork Dublin East Fork Ellisville Equality Farmvale Golden Valley Good Luck Grenora Hanks Hardscrabble Hazel Hebron Judson Lindahl Marshall Missouri Ridge Mont New Home Oliver Orthell Pleasant Valley Rainbow Rock Island Round Prairie Sauk Valley Scorio South Meadow Springbrook Stony Creek Strandahl Tioga Trenton Truax Twelve Mile Tyrone View West Bank Wheelock Williston Winner Zahl Hofflund (Defunct) Villages, Towns and Cities Alamo Buford Epping Grenora Hanks McGregor Ray Springbrook Tioga Trenton Wildrose Williston Wheelock Zahl     Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website UpdatesApril 2012 Obits for Anna Dilland, Emil Glans, Clinton Hedderich, Charles Korsbon, W. R. Montgomery, and Signe Christine Solgyeld also added several marriage announcements- Bios for Luther D. McGahan, Hon. Albert L. Nelson and J. K. Holman- County History Aug 2011: obit for PAPKA July 2010: Biographies for GUNDERSON, OVERSON, OWENS; List of Cemeteries; obits for WARE, TOWNSEND Previous Updates: Military Records, newspaper story BUFFAM 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. Surrounding Counties Divide County (north) Burke County (northeast) Mountrail County (east) McKenzie County (south) Roosevelt County, Montana (southwest) Sheridan County, Montana (west)   Visit our ND State Site     Visit our National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.