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Sioux County, North Dakota

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0historic places

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1914formed

3,898pop. 2020

17cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sioux was formed in 1914 (1914-09-03) from unknown / original county.

SIOUX created from all of Non-County Area 9 [Standing Rock Indian Reservation] by proclamation of the governor. Non-County Area 9 eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Sioux County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,308	4,419	3,696	3,662	3,620	4,044	3,898

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

17 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 17 of 17 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Big Lake Cemetery	46.3236	-100.56706
Cannon Ball Memorial Congregational Cemetery	46.37915	-100.59428
Congregational Cemetery	46.21378	-101.11297
Gayton Cemetery	46.05894	-100.86523
Old Catholic Cemetery	46.3561	-100.57844
Old Saint Philomena Cemetery	46.01651	-100.91779
Red Cedar Cemetery	46.38425	-100.87406
Reed Cemetery	46.07249	-100.65506
Saint Elizabeth's Catholic Cemetery	46.38777	-100.59314
Saint Gabriel Cemetery	46.37271	-100.9315
Saint James Catholic Cemetery	46.22252	-101.10751
Saint James Catholic Church Cemetery	46.22284	-101.1067
Saint James Episcopal Cemetery	46.3686	-100.58761
Saint Lukes Cemetery	46.13803	-100.64587
Saint Peters Catholic Church Cemetery	46.09605	-100.63402
Saint Philomena Cemetery	46.04573	-100.91697
Sitting Bull Burial Site	46.08971	-100.63401

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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