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The Dakota Territory 1885 Census database was developed by the Institute for Regional Studies Archives. It contains over 151,500 names for the northern half of Dakota Territory at that time.

Extracting the census data has been a cooperative project involving Jane Skjei of the Institute; George Barron of Jamestown, N.D.; Donald Smith of Mandan, N.D.; and Carol Norsby. Schedules have survived for fifty of the fifty-six counties that existed in the northern half of Dakota Territory.

All fifty counties are now indexed and contained in this database.

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The missing county schedules include Boreham, De Smet, Flannery, Hettinger, Sheridan and Stevens. Each entry includes: name, age, nativity, occupation, county of residence, and exact location of the entry in the census schedule.

The census is available on microfilm at the Institute (Microfilm HA631 1885 .D34). The Mortality and Civil War veterans schedules were also extracted, but are not presently included in this d