Historic newspapers · North Dakota

North Dakota historic newspapers: 48,522 free digitised pages

Name: North Dakota historic newspapers (Chronicling America)
Creator: Library of Congress
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for North Dakota in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-06. The pages are free to read and searchable by name; an obituary or a marriage notice here is often the only record of a date before civil registration.

Titles with the most digitised pages

Newspaper	Years	Pages online
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)		6,530
Bismarck Daily Tribune (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.])	1881–1916	5,234
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican (Fargo, N.D.)	1894–1957	4,330
The Evening Times (Grand Forks, N.D.)	1906–1914	2,188
Jamestown Weekly Alert (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.])	1882–1925	2,093
Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, N.D.)	1916–1955	2,024
The Hope Pioneer (Hope, N.D.)	1882–1964	1,978
Emmons County Record (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.])		1,970
The Pioneer Express (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.])	1883–1928	1,783
The Dickinson Press (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.])	1883–1927	1,707

Counties

Burleigh 13,829 pages
Morton 6,530 pages
Grand Forks 4,905 pages
Cass 4,615 pages
Griggs 3,180 pages
Ramsey 2,683 pages
Stutsman 2,275 pages
Ward 2,021 pages
Steele 1,978 pages
Emmons 1,970 pages

Cities

Bismarck 13,829 pages
Mandan 6,530 pages
Grand Forks 4,905 pages
Fargo 4,615 pages
Devils Lake 2,356 pages
Jamestown 2,275 pages
Hope 1,978 pages
Linton 1,970 pages
Williamsport 1,970 pages
Bottineau 1,819 pages

By decade

1870 to 1879 472 pages
1880 to 1889 3,403 pages
1890 to 1899 5,286 pages
1900 to 1909 12,892 pages
1910 to 1919 18,001 pages
1920 to 1929 6,068 pages
1930 to 1939 2,487 pages
1940 to 1949 12 pages
1950 to 1959 11 pages
1960 to 1969 9 pages

Languages

English 47,820 pages
German 2,795 pages

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