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Campbell County, South Dakota

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3historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

1,377pop. 2020

30cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1996; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Pollock, Polock, Mound City.

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 Campbell titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Pollock Depot	Pollock	Building	1996
Vanderbilt Archeological Site NHL	Polock	Site	1997
Wientjes Barn and Ranch Yard	Mound City	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

Campbell was formed in 1873 (1873-01-08) from Buffalo.

CAMPBELL created by Dakota Territory in present South Dakota, plus a small part of North Dakota, from BUFFALO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Campbell County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
50	4,527	5,305	5,033	4,046	3,531	2,243	1,782	1,377

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

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

Cemeteries — 30 of 30 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
A C Rossow Farm Cemetery	45.83155	-99.99336
Adam Lutz Farm Cemetery	45.91958	-99.74902
Artas Cemetery	45.8772	-99.8015
Baptist Cemetery	45.92026	-99.98705
Baptist Cemetery	45.61331	-99.75955
Bender Cemetery	45.61883	-99.92375
Brockels Cemetery	45.66609	-99.99678
Eberhardt Family Cemetery	45.68592	-99.73898
Fairview Cemetery	45.83943	-100.07872
Freidens Cemetery	45.92637	-99.91399
Friedenstahl Cemetery	45.67282	-99.84198
Gale Cemetery	45.79677	-100.2659
German Congregational Church Cemetery	45.63711	-100.21434
Greenway Cemetery	45.91279	-99.71855
Greenway Seventh - Day Adventist Cemetery - Brenneise Cemetery	45.88298	-99.7183
Hoffnungstal Lutheran Cemetery	45.76748	-99.77928
Holland Pioneer - Van Raalte Cemetery	45.89932	-100.04876
Jacob Hoff Farm Cemetery	45.76185	-99.75768
Knodenfeldt Cemetery	45.74554	-99.9665
Kvarness Cemetery	45.76144	-100.25545
LaGrace Cemetery	45.88013	-100.37275
Mound City Cemetery	45.7184	-100.05793
Norway Church Cemetery	45.64456	-100.19178
Reformed Cemetery	45.81859	-99.94483
Saint Michaels Catholic Cemetery	45.83275	-100.09092
Seventh - Day Adventist Cemetery	45.61587	-99.82128
Spring Creek Cemetery	45.82526	-99.88316
Spring Valley Cemetery	45.93082	-100.29595
Sutley Cemetery	45.62942	-99.88205
Sutley Cemetery	45.63645	-99.78984

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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