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Slope County, North Dakota

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1914formed

706pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Amidon, Marmarth.

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 Slope titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
H-T Ranch	Amidon	Building	1985
Mystic Theatre	Marmarth	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

Slope was formed in 1914 (1914-11-03) from Billings.

SLOPE created from BILLINGS; vote to create SLOPE passed 740 to 356.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,940	2,932	2,315	1,893	1,157	767	706

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
Carroll Township Cemetery	46.38121	-103.00926
Cedar Lutheran Cemetery	46.2805	-103.02825
DeSart Cemetery	46.38156	-103.00929
Lebanon Lutheran Cemetery	46.46851	-103.36247
Norman Lutheran Cemetery	46.41089	-103.1566
Peaceful Valley Cemetery	46.60538	-103.21742
Pierce Congregational Cemetery	46.35176	-103.08665
Riverside Cemetery	46.29416	-103.90715
Saint Paul Cemetery	46.33827	-103.7285
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery	46.48196	-103.29944
Shollsmade Cemetery	46.58458	-103.07332

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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