Corson County

administration
Corson County Courthouse
US state :	South Dakota
Administrative headquarters :	McIntosh
Foundation :	1909
Demographics
Residents :	4050 (2010)
Population density :	0.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	6551 km²
Water surface :	76 km²
map

Website : www.codington.org

Corson County is a county in northern South Dakota , United States . It has 4181 inhabitants. The county seat is in McIntosh .

geography

The district has an area of 6551 square kilometers; 146 square kilometers (2.23 percent) of this is water. It is divided into 11 townships: Custer, Delaney, Lake, Mission, Pleasant Ridge, Prairie View, Ridgeland, Rolling Green, Sherman, Wakpala and Watauga; and four disorganized territories: Central Corson, Lemmon No. 2, Northeast Corson and West Corson.

history

The county was founded on March 2, 1909 and named after Dighton Corson , a judge on the South Dakota Supreme Court .

The Sitting Bull Monument is one of eight entries for the county in the NRHP.

Eight structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of July 30, 2018).

Population development

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1910	2929	-
1920	7249	147.5%
1930	9535	31.5%
1940	6755	-29.2%
1950	6168	-8.7%
1960	5798	-6%
1970	4994	-13.9%
1980	5196	4%
1990	4195	-19.3%
2000	4181	-0.3%
2010	4050	-3.1%
1900-1990 2000

cities and communes

Cities ( cities )

Communities ( towns )

Morristown

Census-designated places

Community-free area

Walker

Web links

Commons : Corson County - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Corson County in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System . Retrieved February 22, 2011
↑ 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. 70 .
↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 30, 2018.
↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011

45.72 -101.18Coordinates: 45 ° 43 ′ N , 101 ° 11 ′ W

[1] Corson County in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System . Retrieved February 22, 2011

[2] 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. 70 .

[3] Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 30, 2018.

[4] Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011

[5] Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011