8/13/2008: In 1936, in the midst of the "dirty thirties," August was just one in a long line of drought-stricken months. By the beginning of the month, 236 emergency grant applications had been made to the Federal Resettlement Administration from Stark County alone. The whole state was suffering from the drought, though; it was reported in Washington, D.C., that North and South Dakota were the only two states which had had designated all of their counties as emergency drought areas.