South Dakota

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Background • Federal Census Summary • Counties • Links to State ResourcesBackground

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Most of present-day North and South Dakota was acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and was included in Louisiana (soon renamed Missouri) Territory. The part generally west of the Missouri River remained in Missouri Territory until becoming part of Nebraska Territory, formed in 1854. The portion east of the Missouri became successively part of Michigan Territory (1834), Wisconsin Territory (1836), Iowa Territory (1838), and Minnesota Territory (1849). After Minnesota became a State in 1858, this area remained unorganized until Dakota Territory was established in 1861, including all of the present-day Dakotas as well as most of Montana and the northern half of Wyoming. After 1868 Dakota Territory corresponded to the present two States, plus an area transferred to Nebraska in 1882. South Dakota (like North Dakota) was admitted as a State on November 2, 1889 with essentially its present boundaries.

Federal Census Summary

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Present-day South Dakota had no census coverage in 1850. The population given for 1860 is for the whole of Dakota Territory as organized in 1861, essentially comprising present-day South and North Dakota east of the Missouri River; no determination has been made to assign the 1860 total to what became the two separate States. In 1860, some forts and settlements in the present State also were enumerated in Nebraska Territory. The 1870 and 1880 populations consist of the totals of those counties of Dakota Territory located wholly or primarily in what is now South Dakota, plus (in 1870) an estimated portion of the Territory's unorganized part. The total population of Dakota Territory was 14,181 in 1870 and 135,177 in 1880. Considerable portions of the State were not covered by the census until 1900.

1790: ---	1800: ---	1810: ---	1820: ---	1830: ---	1840: ---	1850: ---	1860: 4,837
1870: 11,776	1880: 98,268	1890: 348,600	1900: 401,570	1910: 583,888	1920: 636,547	1930: 692,849	1940: 642,961
1950: 652,740	1960: 680,514	1970: 665,507	1980: 690,768	1990: 696,004	2000: 754,844

Counties
Armstrong Aurora Beadle Bennett Bon Homme Boreman Brookings Brown Brule Buffalo Butte Campbell Charles Mix Choteau Clark Clay Codington Corson Custer Davison Day Delano Deuel	Dewey Douglas Edmunds Ewing Fall River Faulk Grant Gregory Haakon Hamlin Hand Hanson Harding Hughes Hutchinson Hyde Jackson Jayne Jerauld Jones Kingsbury Lake Lawrence	Lincoln Lyman McCook McPherson Marshall Martin Meade Mellette Meyer Miner Minnehaha Moody Nowlin Pennington Perkins Potter Pratt Presho Roberts Sanborn Schnasse Scobey Shannon	Spink Stanley Sterling Sully Todd (old) Todd Tripp Turner Union Walworth Washabaugh Washington Yankton Ziebach (old) Ziebach Cheyenne River Reservation Crow Creek Reservation Lower Brule Reservation Pine Ridge Reservation Rosebud Reservation Sisseton & Wahpeton Reservation Standing Rock Reservation (pt.)

State Resources

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South Dakota State Historical Society
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South Dakota State Historical Society
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Genealogy Trails - Finding Ancestors wherever their trails led
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The Political Graveyard: Miscellaneous Areas, South Dakota
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Order South Dakota Vital Records
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National Register of Historical Places - SOUTH DAKOTA (SD)
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State Projects Page
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http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cemetery/registry.html

Genealogy Trails State Adoption List
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South Dakota Ghost Towns
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http://www.usgennet.org/usa/sd/topic/ghost/

Find South-Dakota public records, including county property records and birth records
... County Yankton County Ziebach County   South-Dakota State Info: South-Dakota State Flag Number of Counties ... state/execut... ...
http://www.findcountyrecords.com/states/South-Dakota

 

References

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Forstall, Richard L., Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 1996.

Perry, Marc J., et. al., Population Change and Distribution: Census 2000 Brief, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2001.