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National Register of Historic Places listings in North Dakota

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6977032
Source-derived summary

There are 461 properties and historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota. There are listings in 52 of North Dakota's 53 counties.

Current listings by county

The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. New entries are added to the official Register on a weekly basis. Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number. The numbers of NRHP listings in each county are documented by tables in each of the individual county list-articles.

Adams County

Barnes County

Benson County

Billings County

Bottineau County

Bowman County

Burke County

Former listing

Burleigh County

Cass County

Cavalier County

Dickey County

Divide County

Dunn County

Former listing

Eddy County

Former listing

Emmons County

Foster County

Former listing

Golden Valley County

Former listings

Grand Forks County

Grant County

Griggs County

Hettinger County

Kidder County

LaMoure County

Former listing

Logan County

McHenry County

McIntosh County

Former listing

McKenzie County

McLean County

Former listings

Mercer County

Former listing

Morton County

Former listing

Mountrail County

Nelson County

Oliver County

Pembina County

Pierce County

Ramsey County

Ransom County

Renville County

Richland County

Rolette County

Sargent County

Sheridan County

Former listing

Sioux County

Sioux County has no current listings on the National Register.

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This entry incorporates text from National Register of Historic Places listings in North Dakota” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.