Editing Sargent County, North Dakota (section)

==History==
The [[Dakota Territory]] created the county on April 9, 1883, with areas partitioned from [[Ransom County, North Dakota|Ransom County]], from previously unorganized areas and from non-county areas in the Wahpeton and Sisseton Indian Reserve. It was named for H. E. Sargent, a railroad executive.<ref name=SCH>[http://www.sargentnd.com/ ''A Little History'' (Sargent County website, accessed February 24, 2019)]</ref> Its governing structure was not completed at that time, so it was attached to [[Richland County, North Dakota|Richland]] for judicial purposes and to Ransom for administrative purposes. This arrangement only lasted until October 8, when the county government was effected,<ref name=SCC/><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 24, 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 4, 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> with Milnor as the county seat. However, in 1884, in the county's first election, Forman was chosen as the county seat.<ref name=SCH/>

The [[Northern Pacific Railway]] laid a line into the county in 1883, reaching Milnor. By 1900 it had been extended across the county. The county's population rapidly increased, reaching a peak in the [[1920 United States census]] (9,655).<ref name=SCH/>

[[File:Emigrantkirka på Sletta.jpg|thumb|left|The former Brampton Lutheran Church, moved to Norway in 1997]]
In 1997 the [[Brampton Township, Sargent County, North Dakota|Brampton]] Lutheran Church (originally built in 1908) was moved to Sletta near [[Radøy]] in [[Norway]] and reconstructed there. It is now called ''Emigrantkirka'' (Emigrant Church).

The [[Sargent County Courthouse]], a [[Beaux Arts architecture|Beaux Arts]]-style building built in 1910, is listed on the U.S. [[National Register of Historic Places]].