Linton is a city in and the county seat of Emmons County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 1,071 at the 2020 census. When compared bearing in mind the other 356 cities in North Dakota, Linton ranks in the summit twelve percent based on the number of its residents. The city serves as a governmental, commercial and issue hub for Emmons County.

A open historic site listed upon the National Register of Historic Places is Sacred Heart Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site, in or near Linton.

In August 1898, land located in the geographic center of Emmons County in Section 7 of Township 132 North, Range 76 West, of the Fifth Principal Meridian, was surveyed and platted by W.E. Petrie into lots, streets and alleys explicitly for the object of creating a chair for Emmons County. The site was named Linton, after George W. Lynn, who had settled in Emmons County in 1885. He was a farmer, lawyer, Emmons County’s first States Attorney and for a even if was the publisher of the Emmons County Free Press. The plat was filed as soon as the register of deeds upon December 30, 1898. Linton was incorporated as a village on April 26, 1906; and incorporated as a city upon April 6, 1914. Charles Patterson, editor of the Emmons County Republican, was Linton’s first postmaster, having conventional his commission for the name in March 1899.

Linton established its first link via long-distance telephone in 1905 as soon as the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company normal a origin from Fargo to Bismarck and created a branch extraction to Linton. At the thesame time Bismarck was related to the stock of the South Dakota system as a result that each of the communities could communicate considering each new in this way.