Billings County, ND borders Slope near Medora metropolitan centre yielding a 2020 estimated population standing at 1,014 making it the 14th most populous county located hereabouts. Its county seat is Medora though other towns include Belfield & Sentinel Butte- Medora itself corresponds out to Billings’s largest city aside from noted country seat. This area had been created out of Stark and Golden Valley Counties back in 1879 when local citizens petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after F. A. Billings North Dakota politician representing region prior era Benjamin Harrison .