Dickinson County came into being in the year 1857 and took its name from Daniel S. Dickinson, a U.S. Senator for New York. It has the area of 403.69 sq mi. More than 16K households and 4.7K family units reside in this region along with the total population of 16K with marvelous combination of races including White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others. Spirit Lake is the county seat.

The phenomenal Dickinson County website is a unique database designed for the avid genealogists and records hunters. Loads of records and information including marriage and divorce decree, death and demise history and adoption specifics, census particulars, birth, military service history and war statistics, civil court dockets index, land registration, will and property figures, similar other topics can be quite easily procured from this fantastic archive.