Billings County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of 2000, the population is 888. Its county seat is Medora.
The Territorial legislature authorized Billings County in 1879, naming it for railroad executive Frederick H. Billings. It was organized seven years later, on May 4, 1886, at a meeting in Medora. The county's area was later reduced by erecting new counties: Golden Valley County in 1912 and Slope County in 1915.
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Billings County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of 2000, the population is 888. Its county seat is Medora.
The Territorial legislature authorized Billings County in 1879, naming it for railroad executive Frederick H. Billings. It was organized seven years later, on May 4, 1886, at a meeting in Medora. The county's area was later reduced by erecting new counties: Golden Valley County in 1912 and Slope County in 1915.
Billings County is part of the Dickinson Micropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,153 square miles (2,987 km²), of which, 1,151 square miles (2,982 km²) of it is land and 2 square miles (5 km²) of it (0.17%) is water. The South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park lies in the central part of the county, just north of Medora.
As of the census of 2000, there were 888 people, 366 households, and 255 families residing in the county. The population density was 0.79 people per square mile ...
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