Griggs County, ND adjoins Steele near Cooperstown metropolitan centre thus giving an estimated 2020 census population standing of 2,266 making it the 11th most populous county located hereabouts. Its county seat is Cooperstown with other cities include Binford & Sharon-Cooperstown itself corresponds out to Griggs’s biggesttown aside from recognized country seat. This area had been created out of Steele and Barnes Counties back in 1881 when local citizens petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after Georgia congressman Alfred M Griggs serving region during period Grover Cleveland .