Established by the territorial legislature on 11 March 1887, the county was named for Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1839-1901), a newspaperman, territorial governor (1884-1886), and U. S. Senator (1889-1891). Government was organized 6 April 1889.
County seat: Rugby
Area -- 1018 square miles
2000 Population -- 4,675.

Queries

County & Regional Information Sources and Databases

• Pierce County Archives
  Includes:
  • 1910 Census Images
  • 1920 Census Images
  • 1930 Census Images
  • Populated Places
  • Townships
  • Township Maps
  • BLM Records
• NDACo: ND Counties: Pierce County Profile
• Clerk of Court
• Register of Deeds
• North Dakota Newspapers - Pierce County
• Internet Public Library -- North Dakota Newspapers
• Pierce County Historical Society (Other listings as well)
• 1910 Plat Map Index -- Pierce County ND
• The Political Graveyard: Pierce County ND
• CI County InfoSystem - Pierce County North Dakota

Rootsweb's Pierce Co. ND Resource Page
includes:

• Pierce County Calendar (Reunions, Family Gatherings, etc.)
• Mailing List Join the mailing list, or do a search.
• It also has WorldConnect Family Trees, SSDI, State Web Sites, Projects, Transcriptions, Primary Records, General Links, Classifieds, and a Guestbook.

Surname Resources

• Rootsweb Surname Boards
  For help with surnames, try the Rootsweb Surname Helper Search to search message boards and websites for your surname.
• RootsWeb Surname Email List Finder
• North Dakota Family Group Sheet Project

Maps

• County Location Map
• 1888 Territorial Map
• North Dakota -- 1895
• 1895 Atlas, North Dakota with county images and information on towns and cities
• North Dakota Counties from the Library of the University of Texas at Austin

  Can't find that place? Give these websites a try:

• U.S. Gazetteer
• USGS Mapping Information -- Data Base Query Form
• Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS - North Dakota
• TopoZone -- The Web's Topographical Map

Adjacent Counties

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