6,391 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.3% since 2020)
1,669 square miles of land · 4 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
8 active community water systems list Bottineau County in the area they serve, reporting 4,870 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BOTTINEAU CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND0500099 | 2,211 served |
| ALL SEASONS WD-SYSTEM I groundwater · private · ND0501057 | 890 served |
| ALL SEASONS WD-SYSTEM III buys groundwater · private · ND0501127 | 790 served |
| WESTHOPE CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND0501001 | 429 served |
| LANSFORD CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND0500549 | 245 served |
| WILLOW CITY CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND0501030 | 163 served |
| MAXBASS CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND0500620 | 84 served |
| SOURIS CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND0500887 | 58 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 5 people were held in Bottineau County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 137 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 4.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
3 school districts have their office in Bottineau County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $13.7 million — $10 million to run schools, about $15,094 per student, plus $3.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.8 million local (mostly property tax), $5.2 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $120,000.
Spent $3.5 million — $3.2 million to run schools, about $19,574 per student, plus $245,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $1.8 million state, $431,000 federal. Long-term debt: $785,000.
Spent $2.7 million — $2.4 million to run schools, about $28,453 per student, plus $224,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $1.3 million state, $265,000 federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Bottineau County about $7.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
123 bridges in Bottineau County: 35 in good condition, 62 fair, and 26 poor (21.1%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| ND HIGHWAY 14 over MOUSE RIVER · built 1961 | 370 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 0520 over SOURIS RIVER · built 1960 | 170 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 0503 over CUT BANK CREEK · built 1965 | 49 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over CREEK BED · built 1935 | 35 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over CUT BANK CREEK · built 1949 | 30 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over DEEP RIVER · built 1969 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $16.4 million of work in Bottineau County in fiscal 2025, about $2,578 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for North Dakota are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Bottineau County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Bottineau County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Renville County (38 mi) · McHenry County (40 mi) · Rolette County (45 mi) · Ward County (51 mi) · Pierce County (55 mi) · Towner County (72 mi).