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Sanborn County, South Dakota

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7historic places

—earliest paper

1883formed

2,330pop. 2020

16cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1984. Most listings are in or near Forestburg, Letcher, Mitchell.

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 Sanborn titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Site 39SB15	Mitchell	Site	1984
Site 39SB18	Forestburg	Site	1984
Site 39SB31	Forestburg	Site	1984
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 56-090-096	Forestburg	Structure	1993
St. Scholastica Catholic Church	Letcher	Building	1994
St. Scholastica Rectory	Letcher	Building	1994
Woonsocket State Bank	Woonsocket	Building	2002

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sanborn was formed in 1883 (1883-05-01) from Miner.

SANBORN created by Dakota Territory in present South Dakota from MINER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,610	4,464	7,877	5,754	5,142	4,641	3,213	2,675	2,330

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

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

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Aquilla Cemetery	44.19637	-98.23175
Bethany - Silver Creek Cemetery	44.09081	-98.16119
Bonny Cemetery	44.17686	-98.05073
Butler Cemetery	43.91692	-98.05063
Diana Cemetery	44.01664	-97.92146
Eventide Cemetery	44.05999	-98.28564
Farwell Cemetery	43.87886	-97.86893
Lutheran Cemetery	44.09682	-97.91173
Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery	44.09664	-97.93368
Saint Anthony's Catholic Cemetery	44.02025	-97.92007
Saint Anthony's Cemetery	44.14803	-97.95035
Saint Scholastica Cemetery	43.89634	-98.1527
Saint Wilfrid Cemetery	44.05995	-98.28852
Silver Creek Cemetery	44.07637	-98.15008
Trinity Cemetery	43.86542	-98.29059
West Lawn Cemetery	43.89559	-98.15277

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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