Renville County, North Dakota

Founding: 1910
Parent county: Ward

Namesake: Joseph Renville, French Canadian trapper
Seat: Mohall (1910–)

Land area: 877 square miles

Population (2020): 2,282

Population (historic): 7,840 (1910); 7,776 (1920); 7,263 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1910

Subdivisions: Six cities; 24 townships

National Register listings: Two

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 339 (25.5%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 24.3%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 10.5%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 10.7%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,363
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,430
Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.3 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 1,174
Average farm size (1920): 356.8 acres
Sources of settlement: Minnesota, Iowa, Norway, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden
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Mohall

Namesake: M.O. Hall, owner of the city site

Founding: 1901 (platting as Hall); 1902 (post office)

Population (2020): 694

Population (historic): 493 (1910); 651 (1920); 676 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1910–1920; 1940s; 1970s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 103 (26.3%)

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