The "Data Sheets for Study of Growth and Decline of North Dakota Cities and Villages" and the "Survey of North Dakota Vanished Towns" data sheets are filed together for each North Dakota county. The survey sheets for the vanished towns are present only for the eastern North Dakota counties, extending west to Towner, Benson, Wells, Barnes, La Moure, and Richland counties. The data sheets, although now dated, provide a variety of data collected for each North Dakota town. There is an 8-page document by Stanley Voelker that provides a good summary of the data collected, organized by the data elements. For the vanished towns project there is a copy of the assignment sheet developed by Mort Mazaheri for the students. The "data sheets" compiled by Voelker include population for 1930 through 1970, school enrollment, whether a post office, a bank, number of doctors, number of dentists, as well as the year townsite plat was recorded, whether incorporated, nearest wholesale-retail center, nearest 'complete shopping center,' ''nearest partial shopping center' nearest airport with scheduled flights and the number of miles to each, railroad line and highways. Not all the data elements were completed for each town. The "survey" sheets for "vanished towns," compiled by Mazaheri's class include name, location, date founded, post office, population, railroad service, if town platted, plat map existing and where, churches, school, newspaper, businesses, notable people, date town vanished and why, and summary of significant historical events. Again, not all the data elements were completed.
