North Dakota Census

Additional Information may be found on the United States Census Portal page.

Availability
Federal census records are found at the Family History Library, the National Archives, and other federal and state archives as well as online. U.S. federal censuses for the state of North Dakota are available for 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930. The 1890 census has been destroyed but the 1890 union veterans schedule and index are avialable.

Indexes
Indexes to the censuses of the Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Dakota Territories have been published in book and microfiche format for 1836, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. A statewide soundex (phonetic) index is on microfilm for the 1880,1900, 1920, and 1930 censuses. Indexes to state and federal censuses for many years and localities might also be found online at the websites listed below.

Territorial Censuses
North Dakota was included in the 1836 Wisconsin, the 1840 Iowa, the 1850 Minnesota, and the 1860, 1870, and 1880 Dakota Territorial censuses.

Web Sites
Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.com

Heritage Quest Online: http://www.heritagequestonline.com

Census Online: http://www.census-online.com/links/ND/

Genealogy Today: http://dir.genealogytoday.com/usa/nd/census.html

Access Genealogy: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/census/northdakota.htm

Territorial and State
Censuses were also taken in 1885 (as Dakota Territory), 1905, 1915, and 1925. These records are at the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The 1885 census is indexed and is at the Family History Library (FHL book 978.4 X22j 1885). It has also been printed in Volume 4 of O.G. Libby, ed., Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota (Fargo, North Dakota: Knight Printing Company, 1913; FHL book 978.4 B2h; film 547583 item 2). The census gives the relationship to the head of house, and parents' birthplaces.

Mortality schedules for the Dakota Territory exist for 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1885. The schedules for 1870, 1880, and 1885 are indexed and are at the Family History Library.

See Indians of North Dakota for information on tribal census reports.