Ransom County, North Dakota

Founding: 1881 (declared in 1873)
Parent county: Pembina
Namesake: Fort Ransom
Seat: Lisbon (1881–)
Land area: 862 square miles
Population (2020): 5,703
Population (historic): 5,393 (1890); 10,345 (1910); 10,983 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1880–1920; 2010s
Subdivisions: Five cities; two CDPs
National Register listings: Nine
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 852 (33.3%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 44.7%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 7.8%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 4.1%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,572
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,716

Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.9 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 1,343
Average farm size (1920): 301.8 acres
Sources of settlement: Norway, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Germany
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Lisbon

 
Namesake: Lisbon, New York
Founding: 1880 (platting); 1880 (post office)
Population (2020): 2,204
Population (historic): 935 (1890); 1,758 (1910); 1,650 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1880–1920; 1930–1960; 1970s; 1990s; 2010s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 300 (31.3%)
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