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State · 1787 – 1803

Northwest Territory

A state of 1787 – 1803 — 16 years in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Indian Reserve. It was replaced by Indiana Territory and Ohio. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 2 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
16 years
1787 – 1803
Rulers
2
the Governor of Northwest Territory
Within it
2
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Indiana Territory: 1800 – 1816Northwest Territory: 1787 – 1803

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

  • Indian Reserve · replaces

After it

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved, 1800-07-04. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

Reduced to present-day Ohio, and some additional lands north and east on July 4, 1800, it ceased to exist March 1, 1803, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Ohio, and the remainder attached to Indiana Territory.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of Governor of Northwest Territory.

Arthur St. Clair · 1788 – 1802 · left office aliveCharles Willing Byrd · 1802 – 1803 · left office alive179017951800
left alive by a regular road
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Arthur St. Clair1788 – 180214 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Charles Willing Byrd1802 – 18031 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1788 – 1803. Only 15 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Seal of the Northwest Territory
    seal, undatedSeal of the Northwest Territory · Public domain
  • Flag of the United States (1777–1795)
    flag, undatedFlag of the United States (1777–1795) · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1700 – 1799: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other17001800 – 1899: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1800

1700 – 17992 rows

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood16 years

    stood longer than 21% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • Rulers on record2

    has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 4 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Indian Reserve · Linked · 1763Indian ReserveNorthwest Indian War · Coincidence · 1785 – 1795Northwest Indian WarNorthwest Territory · 1787 – 1803Northwest TerritoryOhio · Linked · 1803OhioIndiana Territory · Linked · 1800 – 1816Indiana Territory1760178018001820
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Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q669315 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.