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Hyde County, South Dakota

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—newspaper titles

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4historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

1,262pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Highmore, Holabird.

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 Hyde titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Archeological Site No. 39HE331	Holabird	Site	1993
Gerhart, Augustus and Augusta, House	Highmore	Building	1997
Hyde County Courthouse	Highmore	Building	1978
Hyde County Memorial Auditorium	Highmore	Building	2018

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

HYDE created by Dakota Territory in present South Dakota from BUFFALO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Hyde County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,860	1,492	3,315	3,113	2,811	2,602	2,069	1,671	1,262

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

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

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bohemian Cemetery	44.79341	-99.33256
Highmore Cemetery	44.50748	-99.4201
Immaculate Conception Cemetery	44.50629	-99.42199
Pleasant View Cemetery	44.73581	-99.49149
Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery	44.50708	-99.42212
Spring Lake Cemetery	44.79414	-99.56149
Stephan Mission Cemetery	44.24471	-99.45727

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Bramhall	44.52026	-99.30177

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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