Sargent County, ND borders Ransom near Forman metropolitan centre yielding a 2020 estimated population standing at 3,753 making it the 12th most populous county situated hereabouts. Its county seat is Forman with other towns include Gwinner & Milnor-Forman itself correspondes out to Sargent's biggesttown aside from noted country seat. This area had been created out of Richland and La Moure Counties back in 1883 when local residents petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after Massachusetts attorney general Alexander Sargent legislating through state during period James Garfield .