Corson County, South Dakota

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Corson County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of 2000, the population is 4,181. Its county seat is McIntosh ⁶. It was named for Dighton Corson, a native of Maine, who came to the Black Hills in 1876, and in 1877 began practicing law at Deadwood. He was one of the first attorneys for the Homestake Mine, and was elected to the South Dakota Supreme Court in 1889 and served there till he retired in 1913.

Contents

1 Geography

1.1 Townships
1.2 Adjacent Counties

2 Demographics
3 Cities and towns

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 6,551 km² (2,529 mi²). 6,405 km² (2,473 mi²) of it is land and 146 km² (56 mi²) of it (2.23%) is water.

Townships

The county is divided into eleven townships: Custer, Delaney, Lake, Mission, Pleasant Ridge, Prairie View, Ridgeland, Rolling Green, Sherman, Wakpala, and Watauga; and four areas of unorganized territory: Central Corson, Lemmon No. 2, Northeast Corson, and West Corson.

Adjacent Counties

Sioux County, North Dakota - north
Campbell County, South Dakota - east
Walworth County, South Dakota - southeast
Dewey County, South Dakota - south
Ziebach County, South Dakota - southwest
Perkins County, South Dakota - west

Demographics

Corson County Population by year
1910 - 2,929 1920 - 7,249 1930 - 9,535 1940 - 6,755 1950 - 6,168 1960 - 5,798 1970 - 4,994 1980 - 5,196 1990 - 4,195 2000 - 4,181

As of the census² of 2000, there were 4,181 people, 1,271 households, and 949 families residing in the county. The population density was 1/km² (2/mi²). There were 1,536 housing units at an average density of 0/km² (1/mi²). The racial makeup of the county was 60.80% Native American, 37.19% White, 0.10% Black or African American, 0.05% Asian, 0.22% from other races, and 1.65% from two or more races. 2.13% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 1,271 households out of which 38.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.80% were married couples living together, 19.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.30% were non-families. 22.10% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.29 and the average family size was 3.82.

In the county, the population was spread out with 36.90% under the age of 18, 9.80% from 18 to 24, 24.30% from 25 to 44, 18.50% from 45 to 64, and 10.50% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28 years. For every 100 females there were 102.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.80 males.

Cities and towns

Largest cities
Regions of South Dakota
Black Hills - Coteau des Prairies
Aberdeen \| Belle Fourche \| Brandon \| Brookings \| Canton \| Ellsworth \| Hot Springs \| Huron \| Madison \| Mitchell \| Mobridge \| Pierre \| Rapid City \| Rapid Valley \| Sioux Falls \| Spearfish \| Sturgis \| Vermillion \| Watertown \| Winner \| Yankton
Counties
Aurora - Beadle - Bennet - Bon Homme - Brookings - Brown - Brule - Buffalo - Butte - Campbell - Charles Mix - Clark - Clay - Codington - Corson - Custer - Davison - Day - Deuel - Dewey - Douglas - Edmunds - Fall River - Faulk - Grant - Gregory - Haakon - Hamlin - Hand - Hanson - Harding - Hughes - Hutchinson - Hyde - Jackson - Jerauld - Jones - Kingsbury - Lake - Lawrence - Lincoln - Lyman - Marshall - McCook - McPherson - Meade - Mellette - Miner - Minnehaha - Moody - Pennington - Perkins - Potter - Roberts - Sanborn - Shannon - Spink - Stanley - Sully - Todd - Tripp - Turner - Union - Walworth - Yankton - Ziebach

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