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Pilot Mound Township, Griggs County, North Dakota

township in Griggs County, North Dakota

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ10807302 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pilot Mound Township is a township in Griggs County, North Dakota, United States.

History

The petition to organize was presented to the Griggs County Commission on February 25, 1887, and the first Township meeting was held on March 15, 1887, at the schoolhouse in Section 25.

Demographics

Its population during the 2010 census was 41.

Location within Griggs County

Pilot Mound Township is located in Township 148 Range 59 west of the Fifth principal meridian.

Editorial summary

“Pilot Mound Township, Griggs County, North Dakota” enters the record as township in Griggs County, North Dakota. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pilot, Mound and Township can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pilot, Mound and Township.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Pilot Mound Township, Griggs County, North Dakota” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pilot, Mound and Township provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10807302. Authority coordinates are 47.630, -98.178. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1887 and 2010.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Pilot Mound Township, Griggs County, North Dakota”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pilot Mound Township, Griggs County, North Dakota primary sources, Pilot Mound Township, Griggs County, North Dakota archive and Pilot research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Pilot Mound Township, Griggs County, North Dakota”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Pilot Mound Township, Griggs County, 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.