Former organized incorporated territory of the United States (1861–1889)
Territory of Dakota
Organized incorporated territory of the United States
1861–1889
Capital
Yankton (1861–1883)
Bismarck (1883–1889)
• Type
Organized incorporated territory
History
• Created from Nebraska and unorganized territories
March 2, 1861
• Idaho Territory split off
March 4, 1863
• Land received from Idaho Territory
May 28, 1864
• Wyoming Territory split off
July 25, 1868
• North Dakota and South Dakota statehood
November 2, 1889
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Nebraska Territory
Unorganized territory
Idaho Territory
Wyoming Territory
North Dakota
South Dakota
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.
The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the...
North Dakota ( /dəˈkoʊtə/ də-KOH-tə) is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. It is bordered by the Canadian...
County: Renamed Jones County Armstrong County (1883–1952): Created by DakotaTerritory as Pyatt County in 1883 from Cheyenne, Rusk (Dewey), and Stanley Counties...
reservations currently in the state and has historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the 17th largest by area, but the 5th least populous, and the...
The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, or Little Crow's War,...
territorial capital was Omaha. The territory encompassed areas of what is today Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado, and Montana. An enabling...
Dakota and South Dakota. It has been used historically to describe the DakotaTerritory, and is still used for the collective heritage, culture, geography...
portion of the Nebraska Territory, including the northeastern portion of future Wyoming Territory, became part of the DakotaTerritory, while the southeastern...
The governor of DakotaTerritory was the head of government of DakotaTerritory, a territory of the United States from March 2, 1861, to November 2, 1889...
from behind as he played poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood, DakotaTerritory, on August 2, 1876. McCall was executed for the murder on March 1,...
Oregon Territory was officially "unorganized". Most of the area east of the Continental Divide had been part of the loosely defined DakotaTerritory ending...
territory and shortly after was reorganized as part of the DakotaTerritory. The Minnesota Territory was formed on March 3, 1849, encompassing the entirety...
French and British, pushed the Dakota further into Minnesota and west and southward. The US gave the name "DakotaTerritory" to the northern expanse west...
University of South Dakota (USD) is a public research university in Vermillion, South Dakota. Established by the DakotaTerritory legislature in 1862...
DakotaTerritory Resource Corp, a Reno, Nevada corporation, is a publicly traded gold development company owning land in the historic Homestake District...
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