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Jackson County, South Dakota

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1883formed

2,806pop. 2020

15cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Kadoka, Midland, Wanblee.

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 Jackson titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad Depot	Kadoka	Building	1986
Jones, Tom, Ranch	Midland	District	1990
Lip's Camp	Wanblee	Site	1975
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site	Rapid City	Structure	1999
Mt. Moriah Masonic Lodge #155	Kadoka	Building	2004
Pearl Hotel	Kadoka	Building	2007
Prairie Homestead	Interior	District	1974
Triangle Ranch	Philip	Building	1994

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Jackson was formed in 1883 (1883-03-08) from CHEYENNE (Dakota Territory, extinct), Lugenbeel, WHITE RIVER (Dakota Territory, extinct).

JACKSON created by Dakota Territory in present South Dakota from CHEYENNE (Dakota Territory, extinct), LUGENBEEL (extinct), and WHITE RIVER (Dakota Territory, extinct).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
30	2,472	1,955	1,768	1,985	3,437	2,930	2,806

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	28.7 km
badl	Park unit	41.5 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Belvedere Cemetery	43.84971	-101.28263
Catholic Mission Cemetery	43.56671	-101.65642
Cottonwood Cemetery	43.97887	-101.90931
Flat Top Cemetery	43.86529	-101.41102
Gethsemane Cemetery	43.57305	-101.6568
Hawking Cemetery	43.4361	-101.39597
Interior Cemetery	43.71987	-101.97778
Kadoka Calvary - Fairview Cemetery	43.84297	-101.50355
Lakota Freedom Veterans Cemetery	43.45106	-102.02432
Long Valley Community Cemetery	43.47599	-101.49684
Native American Cemetery	43.50583	-102.01431
Rattle Snake Hill Cemetery	43.66193	-101.44379
Saint Ignatius Cemetery	43.55638	-101.64153
Saint Joseph Cemetery	43.39888	-101.75514
South Creek Cemetery	43.93682	-101.4671

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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