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North Dakota Probate Records
726,065 courthouse instrument records on file across 35 North Dakota counties. Probate-style classification in progress — join the waitlist to be notified as counties go live.
Counties
| County | Records | Probate | Heirship | Wills | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 743 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Billings | 33,054 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Bottineau | 1,000 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Bowman | 1,865 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Burke | 74,768 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Burleigh | 68 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Cavalier | 18 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Dickey | 12 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Divide | 69,679 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Dunn | 82,299 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Eddy | 2 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Emmons | 305 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Golden Valley | 2,488 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Grant | 319 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Hettinger | 504 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Kidder | 15 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Logan | 26 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| McHenry | 141 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| McIntosh | 198 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| McKenzie | 146,228 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| McLean | 7,849 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Mercer | 8,223 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Morton | 12 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Mountrail | 75,378 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Pierce | 1 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Renville | 14,049 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Rolette | 10 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Sioux | 41 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Slope | 2,710 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Stark | 38,126 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Stutsman | 309 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Towner | 235 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Ward | 17,647 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Wells | 124 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
| Williams | 147,619 | — | — | — | indexed | View → |
How probate works in North Dakota
Probate is a state-court process for administering a deceased person's estate. In North Dakota, probate cases are filed in the county-level probate or district court depending on jurisdiction. Affidavits of heirship and executor's deeds are typically filed in the county clerk's deed records, separate from the probate case file itself.
Probate.Report aggregates both layers — probate court filings and deed-record filings that reference probate — into a single search.
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