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Sully County, South Dakota

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

1,446pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1993. Most listings are in or near Onida.

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 Sully 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
Cooper Village Archeological Site	Onida	Site	2003
Goosen, Jacob D., Barn	Onida	Building	1993
Snyder, L. E., House	Onida	Building	1993
Sully County Courthouse	Onida	Building	2001

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

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

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Sully County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
296	1,715	2,831	2,668	2,713	2,607	1,990	1,556	1,446

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

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Agar Cemetery	44.83793	-100.06167
Blair Cemetery	44.80293	-100.4205
Okobojo Cemetery	44.65666	-100.36579
Onida Cemetery	44.71471	-100.06486
Pleasant Cemetery	44.69295	-99.75734
Schreiber Cemetery	44.88208	-100.12042

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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