Welcome to Golden Valley County ND History and Genealogy Presented by North Dakota Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website grow. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) WANT TO HELP? Check your attics! Dust off your family scrapbooks! We're looking for DATA for this site!!! If you are interested in adding your families' information this website, Email Us. We'll be happy to help your families' obituaries, news items and other historical data find a home here at North Dakota Genealogy Trails, where it will remain free for all to view. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. County Information Originally part of Billings County.  Voters elected to seperate from Billings County in 1910, but litigation prevented formal organization of the county in 1910. The territory in the surrounding area was colloquially referred to as Rattlesnake Flats due to large number of the snakes found in the area. The region was dubbed Golden Valley in 1902 after a group of land surveyors noticed that the sunlight gave the surrounding grasses a distinct golden color. - Wikipedia County Seat:  Beach from 1912 to the present.   Townships: *Bullion *Delhi *Elk Creek *Elmwood *Garner *Henry *Lone Tree *Pearl *Saddle Butte *Sentinel *Trotters Cities: *Beach *Golva *Sentinel Butte Unincorporated Townships: *East Golden Valley *North Golden Valley *South Golden Valley     Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Forgotten Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries County History Wills/Legal Records Website Updates: April 2012- Beach city Cemetery Listing - Obits for Mr. Roy Oech, Mr. Wm. Trester, William Lee and Mrs. Henrietta Lee - Marriage and Anniversary News- County History- Articles Mar 2012: obit for SHELL Previous Updates: Biographies for HOVERSON, ODLAND; List of Cemeteries; Military Records Surrounding Counties  McKenzie County (north)  Billings County  (east)  Slope County (south)  Fallon County, Montana (southwest) Wilbaux County, Montana (west)  SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwest 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 Visit our ND State Site Visit our National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.