McHenry County /

McHenry County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of 2010, the population was 5,395. Its county seat is Towner. The Territorial legislature formed McHenry County in 1873 from part of Bottineau County. The name comes from James McHenry, an early settler of Vermillion, South Dakota. The county government was first organized on October 15, 1884. Before becoming Towner in 1886, the county seat was Villard from 1884 to 1885 and Scriptown from 1885 to 1886. Both former seats are now ghost towns. McHenry is part of the Minot Micropolitan Statistical Area. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,912 square miles (4,951 km²), of which, 1,874 square miles (4,854 km²) of it is land and 38 square miles (97 km²) of it (1.97%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 5,987 people, 2,526 households, and 1,699 families residing in the county. The population density was 3 people per square mile (1/km²). There were 2,983 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile (1/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.73% White, 0.08% Black or African American, 0.40% Native American, 0.03% Asian, 0.05% from other races, and 0.70% from