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Potter County, South Dakota

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9historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

2,472pop. 2020

17cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 9 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Gettysburg, Seneca, Hoven.

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 Potter titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 9 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

9 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Archeological Site No. 39PO205	Gettysburg	Site	1993
Archeological Site No. 39PO63	Gettysburg	Site	1993
Curran, D. H. and Leah, House	Gettysburg	Building	1996
DeRouchey-Hageman Barn and Farmyard	Gettysburg	Building	2024
Holland, George, House	Gettysburg	Building	1989
North Canton School-District No. 12	Seneca	Building	1986
Potter County Courthouse	Gettysburg	Building	1996
St. Bernard's Catholic Church	Hoven	Building	1980
Stocker, G. L., Blacksmith Shop	Gettysburg	Building	1996

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

ASHMORE (now POTTER) created by Dakota Territory in present South Dakota from BUFFALO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,910	2,988	4,382	4,614	4,688	4,926	3,674	2,693	2,472

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

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

Cemeteries — 17 of 17 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Advent Cemetery	45.1798	-99.67358
Appomattox Cemetery	45.13729	-100.08289
Copp Cemetery	44.91189	-99.73582
Forest City Cemetery (historical)	45.02399	-100.2667
Gettysburg Cemetery	45.01497	-99.92038
Hanson Cemetery	45.2024	-100.08252
Lebanon Protestant Cemetery	45.06378	-99.7764
Lutheran Cemetery	45.22329	-99.61486
Pembroke Cemetery	45.15914	-99.92289
Petro Family Cemetery	44.97068	-100.22599
Prairie Grove Cemetery	45.23179	-99.92468
Sacred Heart Cemetery	44.99841	-99.93889
Saint Anthony Catholic Cemetery	45.23891	-99.77319
Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery	45.07909	-99.77634
Seventh - Day Adventist Cemetery	45.23762	-99.574
Spring Cemetery	45.14358	-99.65649
Zion Cemetery	45.19219	-99.60316

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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