Welcome to Towner 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 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. 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. County Information The county was founded in 1883 by territorial legislation (predating statehood). It was named after Oscar M. Towner (b. 1842, d. 1897). He was a member of the United States House of Representatives. After founding, the county government was fully organized on January 24, 1884. Townships Armourdale Atkins Bethel Cando Coolin Crocus Dash Gerrard Grainfield Howell Lansing Maza Monroe Mount View New City Olson Paulson Picton Rock Lake Sidney Smith Sorenson Springfield Teddy Twin Hill Victor Virginia Zion     Villages, Towns and Cities Bisbee Cando Egeland Hansboro Maza Perth Rocklake Sarles (part) Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates:April 2012 Several marriage Announcements added- Bio for William E. Pew and History of the Cando Herald- Bio for Levi B. Pendroy July 2011: crime news for HARDEE, MARRON, BAUMBERGER, DALEY, BRYAN, MCKNIGHT; gossip for CONYERS; sick list news for WILLIAMS; obits for KENNY, SEBRING; miscellaneous newspaper items July 2010 Updates: Bios for GIBBENS, HAWKINSON, JOHNSON; List of Cemeteries- History of the County Surrounding Counties Turtle Mountain, Manitoba (north) Roblin, Manitoba (north) Louise, Manitoba (north) Cavalier County (east) Ramsey County (southeast) Benson County (south) Pierce County (southwest) Rolette County (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.