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Billings County, North Dakota

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11historic places

—earliest paper

1879formed

945pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 11 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Medora.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for North Dakota is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Billings titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 11 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

11 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Billings County Courthouse	Medora	Building	1977
Chateau de Mores	Medora	Building	1975
Custer Military Trail Historic Archeological District	Medora	District	2009
De Mores Memorial Park	Medora	Site	2019
De Mores Packing Plant Ruins	Medora	Site	1975
Initial Rock	Medora	Site	1976
Myers School Timbered Lodge (32BI401)	Medora	Structure	1980
Peaceful Valley Ranch	Medora	Building	1994
Roosevelt's, Theodore, Elkhorn Ranch and Greater Elkhorn Ranchlands	Medora	District	2012
St. Mary's Catholic Church	Medora	Building	1977
Von Hoffman House	Medora	Building	1977

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Billings was formed in 1879 (1879-02-10) from HOWARD (Dakota Territory, extinct).

BILLINGS created by Dakota Territory in present North Dakota from HOWARD (Dakota Territory, extinct) and Non-County Area 1.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Billings County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,323	975	3,126	2,531	1,777	1,513	1,138	888	945

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
thro	Park unit	22.1 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Connell Cemetery	46.73677	-103.60509
Harmon - Tetly Cemetery	46.80927	-103.56751
Immaculate Conception Cemetery	47.21642	-103.15971
May Memorial Garden	46.8753	-103.29693
Medora Cemetery	46.91717	-103.53672
Saint Boniface Cemetery	47.03592	-103.20291
Saint Demetrius Cemetery	47.05442	-103.10898
Saint Jacobs Cemetery	47.18241	-103.32848
Saint Josephat Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery	47.13839	-103.30933
Saint Marys Cemetery	47.10333	-103.20266
Saint Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery	47.05232	-103.10905
Saint Stanislaus Cemetery	46.99097	-103.20313

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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