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Eddy County, North Dakota

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—newspaper titles

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1885formed

2,347pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1985. Most listings are in or near New Rockford, Sheyenne.

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 Eddy titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

5 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Eddy County Courthouse	New Rockford	Building	1985
Marriage, Sylvanus, Octagonal Barn	New Rockford	Building	1986
New Rockford Bridge	New Rockford	Structure	1997
Sheyenne Bar	Sheyenne	Building	2026
US Post Office-New Rockford	New Rockford	Building	1989

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Eddy was formed in 1885 (1885-03-31) from Foster.

EDDY created by Dakota Territory in present North Dakota from FOSTER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Eddy County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,377	3,330	6,493	5,741	5,372	4,936	3,554	2,757	2,347

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 11 of 11 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Augustana Lutheran Cemetery	47.78855	-99.27508
Bethlehem Cemetery	47.60138	-98.58648
Brantford Cemetery	47.59474	-98.90401
German Free Church Cemetery	47.64634	-99.14791
Grandfield Lutheran Cemetery	47.80313	-99.21048
Holy Cross Cemetery	47.8182	-99.1095
Knox Cemetery	47.7513	-98.74109
Nystrom Cemetery	47.76024	-99.01162
Prairie Home Cemetery	47.70221	-99.13289
Riverside Cemetery	47.83194	-99.08594
Saint Johns Cemetery	47.70292	-99.13484

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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