Barnes County North Dakota Genealogy and History This Genealogy Trails website is available for adoption! If you are interested in becoming the County Host of this website, read our volunteer information page. Until we get a dedicated volunteer to maintain this site, we'll do the best we can to add data as we come across it. You can send your family's raw data (birth/marriage/death, cemetery, census, biography records) to us and we'll include it on this site. County History The Dakota Territory's legislature authorized a Burbank County (named for governor John. A. Burbank) in 1872. But in 1874 they renamed it Barnes County in honor of Judge Alanson H. Barnes (1818-1890) who was an associate justice of the Territorial Court. It was finally organized in a meeting at Valley City on January 6, 1879.  [source: Wikipedia]         Cities and Towns Dazey Fingal Kathryn Leal Litchville Nome Oriska Pillsbury Rogers Sanborn Sibley Tower City Valley City Wimbledon         Townships Alta Anderson Ashtabula Baldwin Binghampton Brimer Cuba Dazey Eckelson Edna Ellsbury Getchell Grand Prairie Green Greenland Hemen Hobart Lake Town Mansfield Marsh Meadow Lake Minnie Lake Nelson Noltimer Norma Oakhill Oriska Pierce Potter Raritan Rogers Rosebud Sibley Trail Skandia Spring Creek Springvale Stewart Svea Thordenskjold Uxbridge   Valley   Weimer   Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Wills/Legal Records County History Court Records Newspapers Obituaries Marriages Military Mortality Schedule Website Updates: Nov 2012: Obit for ANEY June 2012: Bios for BASSETT, SIMONS April 2012 - Bios added for Col. George M. Young, Herbert Root, Frank Sanford, Walter S. Emery, William N. Campbell, William Wansbrough, Edgar A. Pray, MD, Charlie P. Stearns, Evan H. Bakke, John Marsh, A.H. Gray, Charles J. Lee, Martin Somdahl, Daniel F. Siegfried George B. Vallandigham,  Captain Charles F. Mudgett,   Frank P. Wright. Harvey E. Keene, Andrew Anderberg, and Joel S. Weiser Mar 2012: sick list news for SEMMEN July 2011: Fire news story Previous Updates: Obit for LAIRD, COWEN; Bios for BURKE, HANSON, MUDGETT, PLOYHAR, THORESON, YOUNG; Obituary for EVENSON; Burials in Hillside Cemetery; Cemeteries page; Towns page; Death notice for Carl Abrahamson, Fred Nelson, Thorwald Gunderson & 2 Nelson children; Newspaper articles from the Bismarck Tribune Join our Genealogy Trails Western States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan Surrounding Counties Griggs (north) Steele (northeast) Cass (east) Ransom (southeast) Lamoure (southwest) Stutsman (west) Visit North Dakota Genealogy Trails Visit Genealogy Trails National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.