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Golden Valley County, North Dakota

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1912formed

1,736pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1985. Most listings are in or near Beach.

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 Golden Valley titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Golden Valley County Courthouse	Beach	Building	1985

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Golden Valley was formed in 1912 (1912-09-19) from Billings.

GOLDEN VALLEY created from BILLINGS; vote authorizing this creation passed 837 to 756 in the general election held 8 Nov 1910, but litigation delayed this enactment until Sep 1912 when the North Dakota Supreme Court upheld the vote.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Golden Valley County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,832	3,498	3,499	3,100	2,391	1,924	1,736

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	43.4 km

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

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
Alpha Cemetery	46.65109	-103.82043
Beach City Cemetery	46.90536	-104.00632
Beach Lutheran Cemetery	46.90543	-104.00919
Burkey Cemetery	46.7006	-103.944
Lohmann Cemetery	47.10299	-103.73414
Plain View Cemetery	47.02277	-103.83468
Saint Johns Catholic Cemetery	46.90554	-104.00339
Saint Marys Cemetery	46.73586	-103.99046
Saint Michaels Cemetery	46.92033	-103.81818
Sentinel Butte Cemetery	46.91971	-103.81803
South Side Cemetery	47.28362	-103.95436

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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