Beadle County

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administration
US state : South Dakota
Administrative headquarters : Huron
Foundation : 1879
Demographics
Residents : 17,398  (2010)
Population density : 5.3 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 3276 km²
Water surface : 16 km²
map
Map of Beadle County within South Dakota
Website : www.beadlecounty.org

Beadle County is a county in the American state of South Dakota. At the 2000 census , the county had a population of 17,023. The county seat is in Huron .

geography

The county is located in east-central South Dakota, about 130 km to the north from North Dakota , 110 km to the east from Minnesota and 100 km to the south from Nebraska . It has an area of ​​3,276 square kilometers, of which 16 square kilometers (0.48 percent) are water. It is bordered clockwise by the counties: Spink County , Clark County , Kingsbury County , Sanborn County , Jerauld County, and Hand County .

history

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1900 8081 -
1910 15,776 95.2%
1920 19,273 22.2%
1930 22,917 18.9%
1940 19,648 -14.3%
1950 21,082 7.3%
1960 21,682 2.8%
1970 20,877 -3.7%
1980 19.195 -8.1%
1990 18,253 -4.9%
2000 17,023 -6.7%
2010 17,398 2.2%
1900-1990

2000

Beadle County was formed as an original county from the Dakota Territory on February 22, 1879 and has been under self-government since July 9, 1880. It was named after William Henry Harrison Beadle , a brevet colonel during the Civil War . In 1869 he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as the chief surveyor ("Surveyor General") of the Dakota Territory. He later became a professor emeritus of history.

According to tradition, the first permanent settler in County was Charles Miner , who staked his claim on the James River in the summer of 1879 . In the spring and summer of 1880, a railroad tracked through the county and new settlers came to the area. Three years later, most of the available land was cultivated.

On May 10, 1880, the foundation stone for Huron, later the county seat, was laid and on July 4, 1880, Governor Nehemiah G. Ordway appointed Eli C. Walton, Charles Miner and SS Neilson to the three officials who run the county should represent and organize for the time being.

The Hattie O. and Henry Drake Octagon House is one of the county's 25 entries in the NRHP.

25 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of July 29, 2018).

age structure

  • under 18 = 24.7 percent
  • 18-24 = 8.3 percent
  • 25-44 = 24.7 percent
  • 45-64 = 23.0 percent
  • over 65 = 19.3 percent

The average age is 40 years.

towns and places

Townships

The county is divided into 36 townships: Allen, Altoona, Banner, Barrett, Belle Prairie, Bonilla, Broadland, Burr Oak, Carlyle, Cavour, Clifton, Clyde, Custer, Dearborn, Fairfield, Foster, Grant, Hartland, Huron, Iowa, Kellogg, Lake Byron, Liberty, Logan, Milford, Nance, Pearl Creek, Pleasant View, Richland, Sand Creek, Theresa, Valley, Vernon, Wessington, Whiteside, and Wolsey.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Beadle County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011
  2. ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
  3. ↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011
  4. ↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 18 .
  5. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 29, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Beadle County  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

Coordinates: 44 ° 25 ′  N , 98 ° 17 ′  W