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The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [1] until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
An enlargeable map of the United States after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Dakota Organic Act of 1861 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Montana Organic Act of 1864 An enlargeable map of the United States after North Dakota statehood in 1889 An ...
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
North Dakota Mill and Elevator postcard, ca. 1922 North Dakota State Seed Department on North Dakota State University campus. The state is the largest producer in the U.S. of many cereal grains, including barley (36% of U.S. crop), durum wheat (58%), hard red spring wheat (48%), oats (17%), and combined wheat of all types (15%).
A 2013 census report listed North Dakota's population at an all-time high of 723,393 residents, making North Dakota the fastest growing state in the nation. The population boom reverses nearly a century of flat population numbers.
Dakota Territory was split in half along the "seventh standard parallel north", a few miles south of 46° north, and admitted as the thirty-ninth state, North Dakota, and the fortieth state, South Dakota. [239] [311] November 8, 1889 Montana Territory was admitted as the forty-first state, Montana. [268] [311] November 11, 1889
North Dakota – 39th state of the United States, having been admitted to the union on November 2, 1889. The state capital is Bismarck , and the most populous city is Fargo . North Dakota is the 19th most extensive , but the 4th least populous , and the 4th least densely populated of the 50 United States .
Accession Date Area (sq.mi.) Area (km 2.) Cost in dollars Original territory of the Thirteen States (western lands, roughly between the Mississippi River and Appalachian Mountains, were claimed but not administered by the states and were all ceded to the federal government or new states by 1802)