Kidder County, ND neighbors Burleigh near Steele metropolitan centre granting a 2020 estimated census population standing at 2,373 making it the 10th most populous county situated hereabouts. Its county seat is Steele with other cities include Moffit & Robinson-Steele itself equates out to Kidder’s biggesttown aside from acknowledged country seat. This area had been formed from Wells and Emmons Counties back in 1883 when local citizens petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after Ulysses S Grant's wartime Secretary Of War Edwin M Stanton .