Editing Griggs County, North Dakota (section)

==History==
The county was created by the [[Dakota Territory]] legislature on February 18, 1881, with territories partitioned from [[Barnes County, North Dakota|Barnes]], [[Foster County, North Dakota|Foster]], and [[Traill County, North Dakota|Traill]] counties. It was not organized at that time, nor was it attached to another county for administrative or judicial purposes. It was named for [[Alexander Griggs]], a steamboat captain who is credited with founding [[Grand Forks, North Dakota|Grand Forks]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|publisher=Govt. Print. Off.|author=Gannett, Henry|year=1905|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n144 145]}}</ref>

The county organization was effected on June 16, 1882. Its boundary was altered in 1883 when [[Steele County, North Dakota|Steele County]] was partitioned off; it has retained its present boundary since then.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/DAKs_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|title=Dakota Territory, South Dakota, and North Dakota: Individual County Chronologies|work=Dakota Territory Atlas of Historical County Boundaries|publisher=The [[Newberry Library]]|date=2006|access-date=February 20, 2019|archive-date=April 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402202102/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/DAKs_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nd.gov/content.htm?parentCatID=83&id=County%20History|title=County History|work=North Dakota.gov|publisher=The State of North Dakota|access-date=February 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202151843/http://www.nd.gov/content.htm?parentCatID=83&id=County%20History|archive-date=February 2, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Conrad and Sylvia Fogderud farm in Griggs County is known as "Little Tornado Alley" due to the many tornadoes that have occurred there.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=William |title=North Dakota Tornadoes Twisters & Cyclones |publisher=Valley Star Publications |year=2024 |isbn=979-8-89480-378-4 |location=Dickinson, ND |publication-date=2024 |pages=100-101}}</ref>

[[File:Map of Griggs County, N.D., 1910.jpg|thumb|Outline map of Griggs County, North Dakota, 1910]]