Dogtooth, North Dakota
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Dogtooth is a ghost town in Grant County, North Dakota. A January 29, 1900 Post Office Department Location Paper signed by Robt. Pierce (proposed post master)[1], places Dogtooth in the northwest quarter of section 11, township 133 north, range 85 west.
In 1909 the Milwaukee Road[2] surveyed a town two miles east of Dogtooth and in the coming years Dogtooth slowly died out as Raleigh, North Dakota grew. The November 26, 1909 edition of the Mandan Pioneer reported:
Hurrah for Dogtooth, it has a great out look for a thriving metropolis as the Milwaukee have surveyed a town near where Dogtooth now stands and are now doing the necessary surveying of the location of the coal chutes, etc. This part of the country is settled with people who will do all in their power to make it a good town as they will certainly appreciate so near a town after having to haul their grain fifty and sixty miles to a railroad
On April 8, 1910 the paper reported:
The first town on the new Cannon Ball branch of the Milwaukee road is Raliegh [sic], on section 1-133-85. This is at the crossing of the old Bismarck trail to the Black Hills. A few buildings have already been built, including a store and blacksmith shop. The population is mixed, largely Scandinavian.
A brief item from the January 12, 1911 Carson Press[3] suggests the last straw for Dogtooth.
C.C. Leonard has moved his store and postoffice to Raleigh. This puts the finishing touches on Dogtooth.
