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Tripp County, South Dakota

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5historic places

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1873formed

5,624pop. 2020

19cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1983. Most listings are in or near Winner, Wewela, Colome.

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 Tripp titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Barnum, E. G., House	Winner	Building	1983
Manthey Barn	Colome	Building	2004
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 62-220-512	Wewela	Structure	1993
Tripp County Veteran's Memorial	Winner	Object	2009
Wewela Hall	Wewela	Building	2010

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Tripp was formed in 1873 (1873-01-08) from Gregory, TODD (original, extinct).

TRIPP created by Dakota Territory in present South Dakota, and a small portion of present Nebraska, from GREGORY, TODD (original, extinct), and Non-County Area 1.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Tripp County population from 1910 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
8,323	11,970	9,937	9,139	8,761	7,268	6,430	5,624

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

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

Cemeteries — 19 of 19 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Ascension Chapel Cemetery	43.06565	-99.92119
Colome Cemetery	43.26404	-99.72244
Colome IOOF Cemetery	43.26394	-99.72172
Congregational Cemetery	43.11141	-99.82051
Gibson Cemetery	43.06409	-99.69156
Holy Spirit Cemetery	43.54181	-99.92244
Hope Lutheran Cemetery	43.08956	-99.76954
Ideal Cemetery	43.5436	-99.8715
Jerusalem Cemetery	43.23416	-100.18595
Linden Pioneer Cemetery	43.06122	-100.12633
Miniska Presbyterian Cemetery	43.45988	-99.55313
Our Savior Cemetery	43.47555	-99.55038
Red Hill Cemetery	43.70684	-99.78354
Roseland Cemetery	43.60084	-99.6825
Saint Boniface Catholic Cemetery	43.18306	-100.03838
Saint Isidore Catholic Cemetery	43.26394	-99.72331
Saint John the Baptist Cemetery	43.47046	-100.08315
Winner City Cemetery	43.38535	-99.85314
ZCBJ 237 Cemetery	43.32454	-99.86972

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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