Slope

Formed September 13, 1914 (52^nd county)

Slope County (699), Amidon (25), Marmarth (101)

The Modern brown brick and wood farmhouse courthouse built in 2014 replaced a wooden 1915 building.  The county was created on September 13, 1914 as the 52^nd county with Amidon as the only county seat.  The structure is on 2^nd Street East at Main Street.  United States Highway 85 is 2^nd Street East.  Al Fitterer provided the building designs.  A rock fence and veteran memorials are on the grounds.  The county name is named for a geographical feature, Missouri Slope.  Amidon is named for Judge Charles F. Amidon. 

Slope County government consists of a recorder, a sheriff, an attorney, and a treasurer (executive).  It has 3 Commissioners (legislative.)  Four District Court Judges serve Slope, Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger, and Stark counties and a court clerk serves Slope County (judicial.)  The county is in the southwest part of North Dakota.  Minot, North Dakota is northeast and Bismarck, North Dakota is east of the county.  The county center is 14.9 miles Southwest of Amidon.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Billings, Stark, Hettinger, Adams, and Bowman counties and Montana and Golden Valley County. 

The area of the county is 1218 square miles.  It is 25 out of 53 in the state.  It ranks 53 out of 53 in population in the state.  It has a density of 0.6 persons per square mile making it 53 out of 53 in the state.  Slope County has 18.0% of its population in its incorporated areas.  United States Highway 12 clips the southwest corner of the county from Montana, west, to Bowman County, south.  United States Highway 85 travels north to south from Stark County to Bowman County.  The highest point in North Dakota, White Butte, is located in this county.  The county is a rectangle with the northwest corner notched away.  Amidon is located north and east of the center of the county.  Marmarth is in the southwest corner of the county.  Amidon is the county seat and Marmarth is the largest city.  Amidon is 3.6% of the county population while Marmarth is 14.5% of the county population.  The county seat is pronounced AM-I-DON.  The largest city is pronounced MAR-MARTH.