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Corson County, South Dakota

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—newspaper titles

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8historic places

—earliest paper

1909formed

3,902pop. 2020

21cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Morristown, Mahto, McIntosh.

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 Corson titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Antelope Creek Stage Station	Morristown	Site	1992
Archeological Site No. 39CO39	Mahto	Site	1993
Fort Manuel	McIntosh	Site	1977
Grand River Stage Station	Morristown	Site	1992
Harding Schoolhouse	Trail City	Building	1989
Holy Spirit Chapel	Firesteel	Building	1995
Sitting Bull Monument	Mobridge	Object	2006
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 16-570-054	McLaughlin	Structure	1993

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Corson was formed in 1909 (1909-03-02) from Dewey, Schnasse, all of BOREMAN.

CORSON created from DEWEY, SCHNASSE (extinct), all of BOREMAN (extinct), and part of Non-County Area 1; BOREMAN eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,929	7,249	6,755	6,168	5,798	5,196	4,181	3,902

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

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

Cemeteries — 21 of 21 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Brown Church Cemetery	45.74433	-101.24339
Catholic Cemetery	45.6786	-100.8061
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Cemetery	45.8523	-100.45978
Elk Horn Cemetery	45.67989	-100.80737
Good Shepherd Church Cemetery	45.59095	-100.97143
Holy Spirit Cemetery	45.62496	-101.29095
Hope Lutheran Cemetery	45.87526	-100.66684
Long Hill Cemetery	45.65768	-100.69898
Mad Bear Mission Cemetery (historical)	45.73555	-100.34346
McIntosh Cemetery	45.93388	-101.34873
Morristown Cemetery	45.94132	-101.70666
Protestant Cemetery	45.82555	-100.81123
Sacred Heart Cemetery	45.65712	-100.68858
Saint Aloysius Cemetery	45.76662	-101.07694
Saint Bedes Cemetery	45.65778	-100.52594
Saint Bonaventure Cemetery	45.92722	-101.34984
Saint Lukes Cemetery	45.80508	-100.48003
Saint Pauls Cemetery	45.68105	-100.80975
Saint Thomas Cemetery	45.85074	-100.40419
Sitting Bulls Grave	45.51693	-100.48513
Trail City Cemetery	45.47332	-100.70874

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Jeffrey	45.72361	-100.57958

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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