Ziebach County

Ziebach County Courthouse
administration
US state :	South Dakota
Administrative headquarters :	Dupree
Foundation :	1911
Demographics
Residents :	2801  (2010)
Population density :	0.6 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	5105 km²
Water surface :	23 km²
map

Ziebach County is a county in the state of South Dakota in the United States . It is one of the poorest counties in the United States. The county seat is in Dupree .

geography

The county covers an area of ​​5,105 square kilometers. Of this, around 5082 square kilometers are land and 23 square kilometers (0.44 percent) are water. The district is divided into three disorganized territories: Dupree, North Ziebach and South Ziebach.

Almost the entire county is within the Cheyenne River Reservation , an Indian reservation . A small part of the district on its northernmost border belongs to the Standing Rock Reservation . This makes Ziebach County one of five counties in South Dakota that are entirely on Indian reservations.

history

The county is named after Francis M. Ziebach , South Dakota's first governor . He was born near Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in 1830. He died at the age of 99 on September 20, 1929.

One of the county's buildings is on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of August 9, 2018, the Ziebach County Courthouse .

Population development

Population development
Census	Residents		± in%
1920	3718		-
1930	4039		8.6%
1940	2875		-28.8%
1950	2606		-9.4%
1960	2495		-4.3%
1970	2221		-11%
1980	2308		3.9%
1990	2220		-3.8%
2000	2519		13.5%
2010	2801		11.2%
1900-1990 2000

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ziebach County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011
2. ↑ picture on Flickr
3. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 9, 2018.
4. ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
5. ↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011

Coordinates: 44 ° 59 ′  N , 101 ° 40 ′  W