Editing Traill County, North Dakota (section)

==History==
The [[Dakota Territory]] legislature created the county on January 12, 1875, with areas partitioned from [[Barnes County, North Dakota|Burbank (now Barnes)]], [[Cass County, North Dakota|Cass]], and [[Grand Forks County|Grand Forks]] counties. It was named for Walter John Strickland Traill, an employee of the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] and son of Canadian pioneer [[Catharine Parr Traill]].<ref name=dakota/> The first county building was a small single-story building in [[Caledonia, North Dakota|Caledonia]]. Several replacement courthouses were built during the late 19th century and several votes to move the county seat to Mayville narrowly failed. Efforts to move the county seat to Hillsboro were more successful, and all county records were moved there in 1890.<ref>{{cite web|title=Traill County, North Dakota|url=http://www.co.traill.nd.us/|access-date=January 30, 2012}}</ref> Construction of the current county building began in 1905; it is now listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

The county boundaries were altered in 1881 and in 1883. It has maintained its current configuration since 1883.<ref name=dakota>{{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><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>