McCook County

administration
McCook County Courthouse
US state :	South Dakota
Administrative headquarters :	Salem
Foundation :	1973
Demographics
Residents :	5618 (2010)
Population density :	3.8 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1495 km²
Water surface :	7 km²
map

McCook County is a county in the state of South Dakota in the United States . It was named after former South Dakota Governor Edwin Stanton McCook . The county seat is in Salem .

geography

The county covers an area of 1,495 square kilometers; 7 square kilometers (0.46 percent) of it is water. It is divided into 17 townships : Benton, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Canistota, Emery, Grant, Greenland, Jefferson, Pearl, Montrose, Union, Ramsey, Richland, Salem, Spring Valley and Sun Prairie.

history

The county was incorporated on January 8, 1873, and its administrative organization was completed on June 15, 1878. It was named after Edwin Stanton McCook (1837–1873), an officer in the Union Army and Secretary of the Dakota Territory .

The Salem Rest Stop Tipi-Eastbound is one of nine entries for the county in the NRHP.

Nine structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of August 6, 2018).

Population development

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1900	8689	-
1910	9589	10.4%
1920	9990	4.2%
1930	10,316	3.3%
1940	9793	-5.1%
1950	8828	-9.9%
1960	8268	-6.3%
1970	7246	-12.4%
1980	6444	-11.1%
1990	5688	-11.7%
2000	5832	2.5%
2010	5618	-3.7%
1900-1990 2000

cities and communes

Cities ( cities )

planned settlement

Laurent

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ McCook 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. 198 .
↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 6, 2018.
↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011

43.67 -97.36Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ N , 97 ° 22 ′ W

[1] McCook 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. 198 .

[3] Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 6, 2018.

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

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