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Oliver County, North Dakota

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1885formed

1,877pop. 2020

24cemeteries

—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 Hensler.

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 Oliver titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cross Ranch Archeological District	Hensler	District	1985

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Oliver was formed in 1885 (1885-04-14) from Mercer.

OLIVER created by Dakota Territory in present North Dakota from MERCER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
464	990	4,425	3,859	3,091	2,610	2,495	2,065	1,877

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.
knri	Park unit	26.0 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 24 of 24 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bagley Cemetery	47.21998	-101.31045
Bagnell Cemetery	47.22212	-101.01171
Buchmann Cemetery	47.00999	-101.65957
Center Community Cemetery	47.11154	-101.31076
Churchtown Lutheran Cemetery	46.99522	-101.35813
Gaines Cemetery	47.21418	-101.01162
Hagerott Cemetery	47.1123	-101.3106
Hannover Cemetery	47.11467	-101.42674
Hensler Cemetery	47.27083	-101.08693
Hillview Cemetery	47.07973	-100.94265
Moos Cemetery	47.0234	-101.61609
Nisbet Cemetery	47.21367	-101.57518
Otter Creek Cemetery	47.04364	-101.57248
Pleasant Valley Methodist Cemetery	47.20488	-101.42628
Red Butte Cemetery	47.1972	-101.5531
Rhein Cemetery	47.12695	-101.64127
Rosebud Catholic Cemetery	46.99677	-101.23484
Saint Benedict Cemetery	47.08584	-101.74405
Saint Martins Cemetery	47.1116	-101.30977
Saint Pauls Lutheran Cemetery	47.12533	-101.29883
Sanger Cemetery	47.18541	-101.00234
Schmall Congregational Cemetery	47.1268	-101.5757
Spring Brook Cemetery	47.14024	-101.54203
Yucca Catholic Cemetery	47.0831	-101.06526

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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