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Walsh County North Dakota History

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Walsh County was Created from Grand Forks County 8 Feb 1881 and organized 30 Aug 1881 with Grafton the county seat. It was named for George H Walsh (1845-1913), a newspaperman and politician in Grand Forks. Area of the County is 1287 square miles. The 1980 population was 15,000. It shares much of its geologic and early human history with Pembina County to the North.

Andreas' 1884 Historical Atlas of Dakota

For anyone researching in Walsh County this is must reading. Many of the early settler's names are listed, particularly the very first to enter, organize and do business in the county.

My name is Available. I am your County Coordinator and I would like to thank all of the previous coordinators for all of their hard work gathering resources, information and building web pages. You have made Walsh County NDGenWeb a great resource of genealogy research records for genealogists searching their ancestors and information for their family trees. Any time we can help others with finding ancestors for family history research it feels GREAT! If you have information, documents, family files to share please contact me today! I will add your information as soon as possible!