Wells County, ND neighbors Divide near Fessenden metropolitan centre giving a 2020 estimated census population standing at 3,277 making it the 8th least populous county located hereabouts. Its county seat is Fessenden with other cities include Bowdon & Sykeston-Fessenden itself corresponds out to Wells’s largestcity aside from acknowledged country seat. This area had been formed from Foster and Kidder Counties back in 1885 when local citizens petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after Secretary of State Charles J Wells legislating region during period Benjamin Harrison .