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Wells County
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county in North Dakota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Dakota
- Founded
- January 4, 1873 (created), August 28, 1884 (organized)
- Named after
- Edward Payson Wells
- Seat
- Fessenden
- Largest city
- Harvey
- Total
- 1,290.289 sq mi (3,341.83 km )
- Land
- 1,270.533 sq mi (3,290.67 km )
- Water
- 19.756 sq mi (51.17 km ) 1.53%
- Estimate 2025
- 3,729
- Density
- 2.994/sq mi (1.156/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- At-large
- Website
- wellscountynd.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Wells County, North Dakota - Home
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- North Dakota
- Contains
- Fessenden
- Capital
- Fessenden
- Population
- 3982
- Area
- 1290
- Shares border with
- Pierce County
- Official website
- www.wellscountynd.com
- Image
- Wells County Courthouse North Dakota.jpg
- Households
- 1941
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- Commons category
- Wells County, North Dakota
- topic's main category
- Category:Wells County, North Dakota
- inception
- 1873-00-00
- different from
- Wells County
- water as percent of area
- 1.5
- native label
- Wells County
- per capita income
- 36563
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Wells County, North Dakota
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Encyclopedic overview
Wells County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,982, and was estimated to be 3,729 in 2025. The county seat is Fessenden and the largest city is Harvey.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wells County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.