Editing Dazey, North Dakota (section)

==History==
Dazey was founded in 1883 and named for Charles Turner Dazey, who moved there from [[Illinois]] to run a [[bonanza farm]] in the early 1880s. Mr. Dazey donated the land to start the townsite. Mr. Dazey later moved back to Illinois where he became a successful [[playwright]].<ref name=wick>{{cite book | author=Wick, Douglas A. | title=North Dakota Place Names | year= 1988| publisher=Hedemarken Collectibles | location=Bismarck, North Dakota|isbn=0-9620968-0-6 | oclc=191277027}}</ref> It was [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] as a village in 1904, and reached a peak population of 293 in 1920.<ref name=1920census>{{cite web |author=U.S. Census Bureau |author-link=United States Census Bureau|url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/06229686v32-37ch2.pdf |title= Number and Distribution of Inhabitants, North Dakota |work=Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920 |publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]] |year=1921|access-date=July 20, 2008}}</ref> It became a city in 1967, after the [[North Dakota Legislature]] enacted legislation that eliminated all existing incorporation titles for towns and villages in the state.<ref name=bluebook>{{cite book|last =North Dakota Secretary of State| author-link = North Dakota Secretary of State| title = North Dakota Centennial Blue Book| publisher = North Dakota Legislative Assembly| year = 1989| location = Bismarck, ND| pages = 500 & 504| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=HZKEOgAACAAJ}}</ref>