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Haakon County, South Dakota

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1914formed

1,872pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 2010. Most listings are in or near Philip, Midland.

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 Haakon titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Haakon County Courthouse	Philip	Building	2019
Midland Depot	Midland	Building	2019
Stroppel Hotel and Hot Mineral Baths	Midland	Building	2025
Waddell Block	Philip	Building	2010

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Haakon was formed in 1914 (1914-11-03) from Stanley.

HAAKON created from STANLEY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,596	3,515	3,167	3,303	2,794	2,196	1,872

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
mimi	Park unit	57.1 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Deep Creek Cemetery	44.50219	-101.25648
Dowling Cemetery	44.38387	-101.98153
Hilland Cemetery	44.28517	-101.85681
Masonic Cemetery	44.04808	-101.65612
Mattison Cemetery	44.29831	-101.3593
Midland Cemetery	44.0747	-101.14152
Milesville Cemetery	44.444	-101.66951
Nowlin Cemetery	44.06776	-101.31263
Old Midland Cemetery	44.0668	-101.17878
Raymond Cemetery	44.05127	-101.29778
Robbs Flat Cemetery	44.61125	-101.31696
Topbar Cemetery	44.38724	-101.7205
Wellsburg Union Cemetery	44.37227	-101.84025
Wyckoff Cemetery	44.03331	-101.62345

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Dowling	44.3336	-101.9846

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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