Nelson County, North Dakota, United States

Details for Nelson County

Name

Nelson County

Place Type

County

Located in

North Dakota, United States

County Seat

Lakota

Coordinates

Latitude		47.9416631		47° 56' 30" N
Longitude		-98.1837120		98° 11' 01.4" W

Population

4,410

Elevation

459 m

Surrounding Counties

Walsh NE
Grand Forks E
Steele SE
Griggs S
Eddy SW
Benson W
Ramsey NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1034217

Histopolis Place ID

640721346

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Nelson County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Nelson County, North Dakota Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Nelson County, North Dakota
http://www.interment.net/us/nd/nelson.htm (16 May 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1782 (9 Sep 2009)

Nelson County, North Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_County,_North_Dakota (4 Aug 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Nelson County, N.Dak. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ND/NE.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > North Dakota > Nelson County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > North Dakota > Nelson County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/ND/Nelson/cem/ (26 Aug 2006)

Nelson County ND Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nd/nelson/nelson.htm (25 Jan 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Nelson County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=22549&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (28 Jan 2009)

Nelson County, North Dakota ND, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Nelson County, North Dakota ND, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22549 (20 Nov 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > North Dakota > Nelson County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > North Dakota > Nelson County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/ND/Nelson/ (28 Feb 2010)

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Surveys in Nelson County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 28 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Nelson County. You can navigate to any of the 28 survey townships that overlap Nelson County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships and Cities of Nelson County

32 Townships, 7 Cities (Township is assumed unless noted)

Adler	Aneta (city)	Bergen	Bue
Central	Clara	Dahlen	Dayton
Dodds	Enterprise	Field	Forde
Hamlin	Hoiland	Illinois	Kane
Lake	Lakota	Lakota (city)	Lee
Leval	Mapes	McVille (city)	Melvin
Michigan	Michigan (city)	Nash	Nesheim
Ora	Osago	Pekin (city)	Petersburg
Petersburg (city)	Rubin	Rugh	Sarnia
Tolna (city)	Wamduska	Williams

Cities of Nelson County

7 Cities, 7 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (City is assumed unless noted)

Aneta	Dahlen (u.p.)	Harrisburg (historical u.p.)	Kloten (u.p.)
Lakota	Mapes (u.p.)	McVille	Michigan
Pekin	Pelto (u.p.)	Petersburg	Tolna
Wamduska (historical u.p.)	Whitman (u.p.)

Cemeteries of Nelson County

16 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

East Sarnia	Finnish	Hamlin	Hoff
Holen	McVille	Melrose Church	Michigan
New Luther Valley	Sacred Heart	Saint Marys	Silent Hill
St. Marys (*)	Union	Valley Grove	West Forest
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