Wells County, North Dakota, United States

Details for Wells County

Name

Wells County

Place Type

County

Located in

North Dakota, United States

County Seat

Fessenden

Coordinates

Latitude		47.5972232		47° 35' 50" N
Longitude		-99.6503994		99° 39' 01.4" W

Population

5,864

Elevation

496 m

Surrounding Counties

Benson N
Eddy E
Foster E
Stutsman SE
Kidder S
Sheridan W
Pierce N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1034204

Histopolis Place ID

436471267

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Wells County

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1802 (3 Sep 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Wells 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/WE.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Wells County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=22569&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (28 Jan 2009)

Wells County, North Dakota ND, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Wells 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=22569 (20 Nov 2008)

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

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

Wells County ND USGenWeb Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nd/wells/wells.htm (24 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > North Dakota > Wells County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > North Dakota > Wells County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/ND/Wells/ (24 Jan 2010)

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Surveys in Wells County

1 Survey, 7 Ranges, 46 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Wells County. You can navigate to any of the 46 survey townships that overlap Wells County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships and Cities of Wells County

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

Berlin	Bilodeau	Bowdon (city)	Bremen
Bull Moose	Cathay	Cathay (city)	Chaseley
Crystal Lake	Delger	Fairville	Fessenden (city)
Forward	Fram	Germantown	Haaland
Hamberg (city)	Hamburg	Harvey (city)	Hawksnest
Heimdal	Hillsdale	Hurdsfield (city)	Johnson
Lynn	Manfred	Norway Lake	Oshkosh
Pony Gulch	Progress	Rusland	Saint Anna
Silver Lake	South Cottonwood	Speedwell	Sykeston
Sykeston (city)	Valhalla	Wells	West Norway
West Ontario	Western	Woodward

Cities of Wells County

7 Cities, 8 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Bowdon (city)	Bremen	Cathay (city)	Chaseley
Dover	Emrick	Fessenden (city)	Hamberg (city)
Harvey (city)	Heaton	Heimdal	Hurdsfield (city)
Manfred	Sykeston (city)	Wellsburg

Cemeteries of Wells County

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

Bethania	Brethren	Byrnjulson	Chaseley
Concordia	Cooke	Dunkard	German Baptist (Germantown Township)
German Baptist (West Norway Township)	Heaton	Hillside	Hoff
Lake View	Mennonite	Mielke	Norwegian Lutheran
Pleasant Hill	Saint Elizabeth	St. Elizabeth (*)	Sunnyside
Tolbert	Trinity	Wayside

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