Dakota Territory
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territory of the US between 1861–1889
Key facts
- Capital
- Yankton (1861–1883) Bismarck (1883–1889)
- Type
- Organized incorporated territory
- Created from nebraska and unorganized te
- 2 March 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
- 2 November 1889
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- territory of the United States
- Country
- United States
- Capital
- Bismarck
- Shares border with
- Northwest Territories
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- topic's main category
- Category:Dakota Territory
- Commons category
- Dakota Territory
- replaced by
- North Dakota
- inception
- 1861-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1889-11-02
- replaces
- Nebraska Territory
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Encyclopedic overview
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 final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dakota Territory” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.