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Steele County, North Dakota Steele County was founded in 1883 from portions of Traill and Griggs Counties. The county was named for Edward Steele of the Red River Land Company. The original county seat was Sherbrooke.  The county seat since 1919 is Finley. As of the 2010 United States Census, the county population was 1,975  Cities Finley * Hope * Luverne * Sharon Unincorporated Communities Blabon * Colgate * Pickert * Sherbrooke was the original county seat and is now mostly uninhabited NOTE: The city of Steele, North Dakota, is in Kidder County, not Steele County. Townships Beaver Creek * Broadlawn * Carpenter * Colgate * Easton * Edendale * Enger * Finley * Franklin * Golden Lake * Greenview * Hugo * Melrose * Newburgh * Primrose * Riverside * Sharon * Sherbrooke * Westfield * Willow Lake

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