South Dakota County Creation Dates and Parent Counties
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Sort the table by Date Formed or by Parent Counties and check Boundary Changes for interesting insights. |
| Name of County | Date Formed | Boundary Changes |
Parent County | Counties Created by Boundary Changes |
| Armstrong | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Dakota Territory | Ziebach 1911, dissolved 1912 |
| Aurora | 1879 Feb 22 | Details | Brule | Jerauld 1883 |
| Beadle | 1879 Feb 22 | Details | Spink, Clark | Brown 1879 |
| Bennet | 1909 Mar 09 | Details | Indian lands | none |
| Bon Homme | 1862 Apr 05 | Details | Charles Mix | none |
| Brookings | 1862 Apr 05 | Details | Dakota Territory | Devel 1873, Lake 1873, Moody 1873 |
| Brown | 1879 Oct 01 | Details | Beadle | Edgerton 1883, Inman 1883, McCauley 1883, Adams 1885 |
| Brule | 1875 Jan 14 | Details | Dakota Territory | Aurora 1879 |
| Buffalo | 1864 Jan 06 | Details | Dakota Territory | Bottineau 1873, Burleigh 1873, Campbell 1873, Edmunds 1873, Hand 1873, Hanson 1871, Hughes 1874, Hyde 1873, McPherson 1873, Potter 1875, Walworth 1873 |
| Butte | 1883 Mar 02 | Details | Harding | Perkins 1909 |
| Campbell | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Buffalo | none |
| Charles Mix | 1862 May 08 | Details | Dakota Territory | Bon Homme 1862, Douglas 1873 |
| Clark | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Hanson | Beadle 1879, Day 1879 |
| Clay | 1862 Apr 10 | Details | Dakota Territory | none |
| Codington | 1877 7 18 | Details | Indian lands | none |
| Cole | 1862 Jan 10 | Details | Dakota Territory | renamed Union 1864 |
| Carson | 1909 Mar 02 | Details | Indian lands | none |
| Custer | 1875 Jan 11 | Details | Indian lands | Fall River 1883 |
| Davison | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Hanson | none |
| Day | 1879 Feb 22 | Details | Clark | Marshall 1885 |
| Deuel | 1862 Apr 05 | Details | Brookings | Hamlin 1873, Hanson 1871 |
| Dewey | 1873 Jan 09 | Details | renamed from Rusk | Corson |
| Douglas | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Charles Mix | none |
| Edmunds | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Buffalo | none |
| Fall River | 1883 Mar 06 | Details | Custer | none |
| Faulk | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Dakota Territory | none |
| Grant | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Codington, Deuel | Roberts 1883 |
| Gregory | 1862 May 08 | Details | Yankton | none |
| Haakon | 1914 4 19 | Details | Stanley | none |
| Hamlin | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Deuel | none |
| Hand | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Buffalo | none |
| Hanson | 1871 Jan 13 | Details | Buffalo, Deuel | Clark 1873, Davidson 1873, Kingsbury 1873, Lake 1873, McCook 1873, Miner 1873, Spink 1873 |
| Harding | 1909 Feb 26 | Details | Dakota Territory | Butte 1883, Perkins 1909 |
| Hughes | 1874 Jan 08 | Details | Buffalo | none |
| Hutchinson | 1862 May 08 | Details | Dakota Territory | none |
| Hyde | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Buffalo | none |
| Jackson | 1914 4 19 | Details | Stanley | none |
| Jerauld | 1883 Mar 09 | Details | Aurora | none |
| Jones | 1916 6 19 | Details | Lyman | none |
| Kingsbury | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Hanson | none |
| Lake | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Brookings, Hanson | none |
| Lawrence | 1873 Jan 11 | Details | Dakota Territory | Meade 1889 |
| Lincoln | 1862 Apr 05 | Details | Minnehaha | Turner 1871 |
| Lyman | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Dakota Territory | Jones 1916, Mellette 1909 |
| Marshall | 1885 Mar 10 | Details | Day | none |
| McCook | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Hanson | none |
| McPherson | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Buffalo | none |
| Meade | 1889 Feb 07 | Details | Lawrence | none |
| Mellette | 1909 Mar 09 | Details | Lyman | none |
| Miner | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Hanson | Sanborn 1883 |
| Minnehaha | 1862 Apr 05 | Details | Dakota Territory | Lincoln 1862, Moody 1873 |
| Moody | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Minnehaha, Brookings | none |
| Pennington | 1875 Jan 11 | Details | Dakota Territory | none |
| Perkins | 1909 Feb 26 | Details | Harding, Butte | none |
| Potter | 1875 Jan 14 | Details | Buffalo | Sully 1873 |
| Roberts | 1883 Mar 08 | Details | Grant | none |
| Rusk | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Dakota Territory | renamed Dewey 1883 |
| Sanborn | 1883 Mar 09 | Details | Miner | none |
| Shannon | 1875 Jan 11 | Details | Fall River | none |
| Spink | 1873 jan 08 | Details | Hanson | Beadle 1879 |
| Stanley | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Dakota Territory | Haakon 1914, Jackson 1914 |
| Sully | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Potter | none |
| Todd | 1909 Mar 09 | Details | Rosebud Indian Reservation | conterminous with the reservation |
| Tripp | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Dakota Territory | none |
| Union | 1864 Jan 07 | Details | renamed from Cole | none |
| Walworth | 1873 Jan 08 | Details | Buffalo | none |
| Washabaugh | 1883 Mar 09 | Details | Dakota Territory | none |
| Washington | 1883 Mar 09 | Details | Dakota Territory | abolished |
| Yankton | 1862 Apr 10 | Details | Dakota Territory | Gregory 1862 |
| Ziebach | 1911 Feb 01 | Details | Armstrong | none |
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ [http://historical-county.newberry.org/website/South_Dakota/viewer.htm South_Dakota Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, John H. Long, Editor; Peggy Tuck Sinko, Associate Editor; Gordon DenBoer, Historical Compiler; Douglas Knox, Book Digitizing Director and Digital Compiler; Emily Kelley, Research Associate; Laura Rico-Beck, GIS Specialist; Peter Siczewicz, ArcIMS Interactive Map Designer; Robert Will, Cartographic Assistant. Copyright The Newberry Library 2008.
