This county is available for adoption. If you are interested, check out our Adopt-A-County page for more info or email Michelle

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

Lookup Volunteers

If you have data to contribute, have problems with the site or are interested in adopting this county,
email Michelle, "foster" coordinator

I'm sorry, but I cannot do personal research for this county. Please investigate the site and submit a query!