Morton County
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State Coordinator: Michelle Savre
Assistant State Coordinator: Linda Ziemann
Morton County was created by the 1872-1873 territorial legislature.
Morton County was named for Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana during the civil war and a U. S. Senator from Indiana at the time the county was established.
Morton county extended from the eighth standard parallel on the south to the tenth standard parallel on the north, and from the twelfth guide meridian on the west to the Missouri river on the east."
Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Volume 5, page 185
The government was organized March 23, 1878, but the 1879 legislature attached the eastern portion of Morton County to Burleigh County. This effectively nullified the organization of the Morton County government. The 1881 legislature returned the detached portion to Morton County and the government was reorganized on February 18 of that year.
The County seat was originally in Lincoln 1878-1879, and it was moved to Mandan in 1881.
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