North Dakota Census

United States U.S. Census North Dakota Census

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For a list of the exact date of each federal census, click here.

Online North Dakota indexes and images

Federal population schedules

Microfilm images

**Federal Census Microfilms Available from the Family History Library**
1940 N/A	1910	1870
1930	1900 and Soundex	1860
1920 and Soundex	1880 and Soundex

**Federal Census Microfilms Available from the National Archives**
1940 N/A	1910 T624	1870 M593
1930 T626	1900 T623 and Soundex T1064	1860 M653
1920 T625 and Soundex M1580	1880 T9 and Soundex T740

Indexes: fiche, film, or book

For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of North Dakota, click here

Federal non-population schedules

Online indexes and images

Online Federal Non-Population Schedules for North Dakota
		Free			Free at Some Libraries (usually with library card)			Pay
Year	Type	Record Search	Census Bureau	Google Book	Heritage Quest	Ancestry FHL	Ancestry Library	Ancestry Home
1890	Veterans	-	-	-	-	Link	Link	Link
1885	Mortality	-	-	-	-	Link	Link	Link
1880	Mortality	-	-	-	-	Link	Link	Link
1870	Mortality	-	-	-	-	Lost	Lost	Lost
1860	Mortality	-	-	-	-	Link	Link	Link
1850	Mortality^[1]	Link	-	-	-	Link	Link	Link

Microfilm images

Indian rolls, Turtle Moutain, 1910-1939	Indian census rolls, Ft. Berthold, 1889-1939
Indian census rolls, Fort Totten, 1906-1939	Males over 18 years of age, 1889
French Canadians, 1900	Indian rolls, Devils Lake Agency, 1885-1905
Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Roulete, ND, 1900	Standing Rock Agency census, 1876-1939
Civil War Union veterans and widows, 1890

Indexes: fiche, film, or book

For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of North Dakota, click here.

State, territorial, and colonial censuses

North Dakota (Dakota Territory 1860-1900) state, territorial, or colonial censuses^[2]^[3]

1925

Exist

1915

Exist

1885

Exist

1857

Exists as part of a special federal census of Minnesota Territory^[4]

Existing and lost censuses

For a list of available and missing North Dakota censuses, click here.

Why use a census?

A well-indexed census is one of the easiest ways to locate where an ancestor's family lived and when they lived there. You can also use censuses to follow the changes in a family over time, and identify neighbors. These and other clues provided by censuses are important because they help find additional kinds of records about the family.

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Sources and footnotes

↑ For deceased former residents in what is now North Dakota see the Pembina County, Minnesota Territory 1850 census mortality schedules.
↑ Ann S. Lainhart, State Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992), 90.
↑ Henry J. Dubester, State Censuses: An Annotated Bibliography of Censuses of Population Taken After the Year 1790 by States and Territories of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948), 51-52, 71.
↑ In 1857 the white residents in what is now Pembina, North Dakota were enumerated as part of a special federal census in what was then Pembina County, Minnesota Territory. See William Thorndale, and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1987), pages 172, and 259.

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[1] For deceased former residents in what is now North Dakota see the Pembina County, Minnesota Territory 1850 census mortality schedules.

[2] Ann S. Lainhart, State Census Records (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992), 90.

[3] Henry J. Dubester, State Censuses: An Annotated Bibliography of Censuses of Population Taken After the Year 1790 by States and Territories of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948), 51-52, 71.

[4] In 1857 the white residents in what is now Pembina, North Dakota were enumerated as part of a special federal census in what was then Pembina County, Minnesota Territory. See William Thorndale, and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1987), pages 172, and 259.

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