Cavalier County North Dakota Genealogy and History Presented by Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy 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 and email Kim. 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. Cavalier County was created from the western part of Pembina County in 1873 and named by the Territorial Legislature for Charles Cavileer, a well known fur trader, customs agent and postmaster. The spelling has always been Cavalier. After petitioning the Territorial Governor for permission to organize the county, Patrick McHugh, W. Hudson Matthews, and L.C. Noracong met for the purpose on July 8, 1884. The site of the new county seat was chosen at this meeting and named Langdon for Robert Bruce Langdon of Minnesota, a federal railroad official who never visited the town. Fifteen townships from Pembina County were added to Cavalier County by vote of their residents in May 1885. A census taken at that time revealed 5,029 residence living in nine large townships. The nine townships names used in 1885 are still used. The current boundaries and township names were standardized in 1906. The first court house was built in the fall of 1884. It was used briefly and then abandoned for warmer and more centrally located quarters in a downtown bank. A large brick court house was built in 1895 on the present site. This building served county officials until the current court house was constructed in 1957-58. [Source: Wikipedia.org] Cities and Unincorporated Communities Alsen Calio Calvin Hannah Hove Mobile Park Langdon Loma Milton Munich Nekoma Osnabrock Sarles Wales Townships Alma Banner Billings Bruce Byron Cypress Dresden Easby East Alma Fremont Glenila Gordan Grey Hay Henderson Huron Linden Loam Manilla Montrose Moscow Mount Carmel North Loma North Olga Osford Perry Seivert South Dresden South Olga Storlie Trier Union Waterloo West Hope   Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Churches Wills/Legal Records County History Court Records Newspapers Obituaries Marriages Military Website Updates- April 2012 Bio for Prof. Edward J. Fox,  William F. Winter, Hon. Walter A. Laidlaw, Homer E. Kinney Jan 2012: Early history as told by resident Louie Wohletz July 2010: Biographies for BALSDON, BORUSKY, HELGESEN, MCLEAN, PLAIN  MAILING LIST Don't miss a website update! Click here to sign up for one or more of our mailing lists. North Dakota is covered on our UPPER MIDWEST mailing list. Surrounding Counties Pembina (east) Walsh (southeast) Ramsey (south) Towner (west) Surrounding Rural Municipalities located to the North in Manitoba, Canada Louise Pembina Stanley   Return to North Dakota Genealogy Trails Return to Genealogy Trails Home Page Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.