North Dakota State Agency Databases

"The North Dakota Department of Agriculture created this interactive map as a modern tool to assist with communication and efficiencies for landowners, beekeepers and pesticide applicators. The ND Bee Map allows the public to view North Dakota apiary locations, as well as other sensitive areas such as orchards and vineyards."

Community profiles are compilations of data on each community in North Dakota. This data originates from a variety of sources and is populated by the Department of Commerce and the local communities. The resulting profiles are made available to site selectors and the general public to assist in locating a community to meet their needs.

"North Dakota offers many finance programs and tax incentives which benefit primary sector businesses and other corporations. The Department of Commerce is responsible for certifying primary sector businesses and this certification is required for several tax incentives."

From the website: This database reflects current information on record with the Secretary of State. It includes database records of all corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability limited partnerships, partnership fictitious names, trade names, trademarks, and real estate investment trusts. The database includes all active records and those records inactivated within the past twelve months and may be useful to assess Name Availability for new business registrations to be filed with the Secretary of State.

Search Supreme Court Opinions by free text, scope, title, citation, topic, or author.

Search for lawyers.

Search the Supreme Court website.

Search North Dakota Court Rules.

Search the Supreme Court calendar.

Search criminal, traffic, civil, family, and probate case records; judgments; and court calendar.

Offenders with a lifetime requirement for registration, those who have been deemed a high risk for re-offending, and delinquent offenders are shown with full details and photographs on the website. A printable list of all offenders can be downloaded for a particular city, county, or the entire state.

Find residents of ND Corrections

Search by title word, journal name, author, or year.
Website is being updated. The link will be changed when a new one is available.

Over 5,100 references on the geology of North Dakota, covering 1806-2002. In cooperation with North Dakota State University Libraries and the North Dakota Geological Survey.

ODIN membership includes North Dakota academic, public, state agency, school, and special libraries. Together these libraries own a total of over 5 million items.

Search election results by Contest or Candidate.

An A-Z listing of state agencies. This page includes a Board and Member search.

Expanding lists of state contracts. Includes a Bidder search.

Searchable index of death certificates issued by North Dakota from 1/1/1881 to one year ago. Searchable by last name, first name, death date range (max 10 years), and county of death. Results include the same fields you can search by, plus gender, age at death and county of residence.

Information on North Dakota's Coronavirus cases, prevention and other information.

School closures and Coronavirus closures

School closures related to CORVID-19

An online treasure house of thousands of images, documents, video, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today. Here you'll find a fascinating snapshot of the lives, culture, and history of the people who shaped life on the prairies.

State Documents can be searched in the library catalog. Lists of recent arrivals can be viewed by agency name and then by document title.

The NDSU Digital Repository is an institutional repository provided by the NDSU Libraries that collects, preserves, and distributes digital material located at or produced by the NDSU community.

Search materials in the Libraries by keyword, title, author, subject, or ISBN/ISSN; limit by location, material type, year, or language.

This search will allow anyone to locate more than 10,000 recipes in cookbooks available for purchase at the website.

Bison Briefs (under previous titles) began in 1917 and, with some publication suspensions, continues today. Articles focus on college and alumni events, activities, and news.

This database indexes over 3,300 civil and divorce case files, spanning from the 1870s to 1942, handled in Cass County District Court. Individual entries include names of the plaintiff and defendant, attorneys, dates of proceedings, and miscellaneous notes.

This database indexes all marriage licenses recorded in Cass County between circa 1872 and July 1944.

This database provides access to over 5,900 individual Cass County probate files from circa 1875 to 1949.

The database contains over 151,500 names. Each entry includes: name, age, nativity, occupation, county of residence, and exact location of the entry in the census schedule.

This Fargo Forum Newspaper Index database provides citations (currently about 8,000 entries) to selected articles published in a number of Fargo newspapers between 1879 and 1975, primarily the Fargo Forum, regarding events in North Dakota and to a limited extent in other states.

This database contains over 70,000 names from the Fargo Forum newspaper, October 1892 to 1909 and from November 1982 to 1995.

It’s Happening at State is a newsletter published by NDSU that covers campus news and events. The first issue was published in 1967 and continues through today. This database covers August 1967 – December 1998.

An ongoing project to provide access to biographical sketches found in a wide variety of North Dakota publications. It currently contains some 250,000 names to published biographical sketches of North Dakotans found in over 800 publications.

Sanitary Home, North Dakota Farmer and Sanitary Home, and North Dakota Farmer was a periodical published for rural North Dakotans from 1899-1918.

This database provides access to some 10,000 original arrangements used by the Welk Orchestra and individual performers spanning from the 1950s to 1980s.

The database contains over 212,000 names, giving the county where the declaration of intention (1st papers) was filed and the naturalization occurred (2nd papers), the date of both events, and from what country the person emigrated.

The Record historical magazine was published at Fargo, N.D. from 1895 to 1905. The magazine’s main focus was historical and biographical articles related to North Dakota, with numerous illustrations of persons, places and events. This database covers issues from 1895 through 1899.

The Spectrum is the student newspaper of North Dakota State University. This database contains digitized full text search from Dec. 1896 to Spring 1950. All pages are in PDF and can be printed or saved.

Search this growing archive of the Spectrum.

An online treasure house of thousands of images, documents, video, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today. Here you'll find a fascinating snapshot of the lives, culture, and history of the people who shaped life on the prairies.

Photographs, political cartoons, newspaper articles, videos, and other materials digitized by the UND Chester Fritz Library.

Bygdebøker are published farm and family histories compiled by local Norwegian groups.

Enter various criteria to search for a job.

Opinions dating back to 1942 are available in PDF format and are divided according to year. A pdf index for the opinions is also available on this page.

The North Dakota Century Code on this website contain currently effective laws of North Dakota changes approved by the 63rd Legislative Assembly are now reflected on this website. Sections of law with expiration dates or delayed effective dates are indicated in the Section caption.

The Legislative Council publishes the Administrative Code which is the codification of all rules of state administrative agencies, as that term is defined by North Dakota Century Code Section 28-32-02. Many state agencies are not administrative agencies as defined by Section 28-32-02. Although rules of those agencies are not required to be published in the Administrative Code, some agencies have consented to placing their rules in the code. Those agencies are identified with an explanatory note on the title page for that agency. The Administrative Code was initially published July 1, 1978. The Administrative Code is updated with quarterly changes. The Internet version is derived from the database prepared by the North Dakota Legislative Council.

This system is for searching active North Dakota dealers by dealer number, type and/or city.

Search driver’s license status.

Looking for something to do while staying in North Dakota? Let this database help you find casinos, fishing, fall foliage viewing, historic sites, wineries and much more. Records have address, location and hours plus seasonal information.

Whether it's Folkfest, Horsefest, or Høstfest, search by any combinations of city, vicinity, category, name or date.

"This is where you will find North Dakota geospatial data and information." Includes the Hub Data Portal, Hub Explorer, and Visual ND.

Click on the blue or the red plane symbols and you will be taken to the relevant airport page. (Scroll down to find the map).

This system is for checking current availability of special letter plates.

Use a grid of subjects to find data on elections.