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Bennett County, South Dakota

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1909formed

3,381pop. 2020

13cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 2013. Most listings are in or near Martin.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for South Dakota is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Bennett titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Inland Theater	Martin	Building	2013

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bennett was formed in 1909 (1909-06-03) from Lugenbeel, Shannon, Washabaugh, Washington.

BENNETT created from LUGENBEEL (extinct), SHANNON, WASHABAUGH (extinct), and WASHINGTON (extinct); LUGENBEEL eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Bennett County population from 1910 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
96	1,924	3,983	3,396	3,053	3,044	3,574	3,381

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

13 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Allen Community Cemetery	43.28363	-101.92419
Body of Christ Cemetery	43.29721	-102.02287
Gamble Cemetery	43.13666	-101.90708
Inestimable Gift Cemetery	43.30006	-101.94993
Martin Community Cemetery	43.15809	-101.7203
Our Lady of the Lake Cemetery	43.06475	-101.57661
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Cemetery	43.15815	-101.72264
Peyote Cemetery	43.27698	-101.89129
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	43.29603	-101.9996
Red Bear Cemetery	43.27505	-101.88099
Saint Johns Cemetery	43.26873	-101.84279
Salaway Cemetery	43.34788	-101.86239
Tuthill Cemetery	43.15764	-101.47496

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
LaCreek	43.09167	-101.64681

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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