Welcome to Hettinger 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 project be as successful as it can be. 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) We regret that we are unable to perform research for you. 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. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists North Dakota is covered under our "Upper Midwest" States mailing list. Created by the 1883 territorial legislature and organized April 19, 1907.  The county is named after Tom Hettinger, the father-in-law of Erastus Appleman Williams, who was the Speaker of the Dakota Territory House of Representatives the year Hettinger County was established. County Seat:  Mott from 1881 to the present.   Townships: *Acme *Ashby *Baer *Beery *Black Butte *Brittian *Campbell *Cannon Ball *Castle Rock *Chilton *Clark *Farina *Havelock *Highland *Kennedy *Kern *Kunze *Madison *Merrill *Mott *New England *Odessa *Rifle *St. Croix *Solon *Steiner *Strehlow *Tepee Butte *Wagendorf *Walker Cities: *Mott *New England *Regent     Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths County History Forgotten Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records Website Updates: April 2012 Obits for James E. Sullivan, Col. J. B. Mead, Col. John B. Mead, Mrs. Sticken, Robert Oldenburg, Herman Schlenvogt, William Schlenvogt, Levi Colgrove, Mrs. Sticken, and Judge Wilkom - News Marriage Announcements - Community News, Anniversaries, Mott news- History July 2010: JACOBSON biography; List of Cemeteries Previous Updates: Military Data Surrounding Counties  Stark County (north)  Grant County (east)  Adams County (south)  Slope County (west)  Visit our ND State Site Visit our National Site Copyright ©2010 Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.