The NDSU Institute for Regional Studies headed a statewide cooperative project to index the entire original Dakota Territory 1885 Census schedules for the counties that today form North Dakota. The database contains over 151,500 names. Each entry includes: name, age, nativity, occupation, county of residence, and exact location of the entry in the census schedule. Consult the Institute’s information page for the scope and content of the records and for ordering copies.
Databases
Help
Statewide
- North Dakota Biography Index
- North Dakota Naturalizations
- Dakota Territory 1885 Census
- Fargo Forum Obituaries
Cass County, N.D.
Newspaper and Periodical Indexes
- Fargo Forum, 1879-1995
- The Spectrum, 1896-
- The Record, 1895-1905
- It's Happening at State, 1967-1998
- Bison Briefs, 1917 – Present