I found myself in North
Dakota looking for some additional farmland to purchase. It happened the Realtor I was working with had her office in the
town of Steele. Steele happens to be the county seat of Kidder County, and I happened to take a photograph of the Kidder County
Courthouse.
Kidder County is located in North Dakota. The county seat is Steele, located on I-94
about an hour east of Bismarck. As of 2000, the population was about 2,753.
The
county was created by the 1872-1873 territorial legislature and was named for Jefferson Parrish Kidder ( 1816-1882 ), an 1858
settler in what became southeastern Dakota and who served as a delegate to Congress from Dakota from 1875 to 1879, and as
an associate justice of the territorial supreme court during 1865-1875 and 1879-1883. The county was organized on March 22,
1881, and Steele became the county seat in 1881.
