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Walworth County, South Dakota

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
13historic places
—earliest paper
1873formed
5,315pop. 2020
24cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 13 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Mobridge, Java, Selby.

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 Walworth titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 13 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

13 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Brown Palace HotelMobridgeBuilding1983
Brown, A. H., Public LibraryMobridgeBuilding1978
Brown-Evans HouseMobridgeBuilding1990
Gravel Pit Site (39WW203)MobridgeSite1986
Java DepotJavaBuilding2001
Johnson BarnMobridgeBuilding2005
Mobridge AuditoriumMobridgeBuilding1986
Mobridge Masonic TempleMobridgeBuilding1977
Molstad Lake ParkGlenhamDistrict2010
Moser, Wilhelm, House-BarnJavaBuilding1984
Ochszbner, Jacob, Sr., HouseJavaBuilding1984
Selby Opera HouseSelbyBuilding1987
Walworth County CourthouseSelbyBuilding1999

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

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

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

8,7914,41846188019201950196020002020
188019001920194019501960198020002020
463,8398,4477,2747,6488,0977,0115,9745,315

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

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

Cemeteries — 24 of 24 listed
NameLatLon
Akaska Cemetery45.34847-100.11998
Bangor Cemetery45.44165-100.05789
Bethany Cemetery45.59387-100.11067
Bethany Cemetery45.57788-100.11922
Bethlehem Cemetery45.53637-100.07872
Congregational Cemetery45.53637-99.9865
Evarts Cemetery (historical)45.46332-100.31791
Glenham Cemetery45.53667-100.26385
Grace Cemetery45.53665-100.38623
Greenwood Cemetery45.55329-100.42697
Java East Cemetery45.50303-99.85205
Java Reformed Cemetery45.50795-99.89489
Lowry Cemetery45.29665-99.97594
Lowry Cemetery45.31859-99.99622
Mobridge City Cemetery45.5368-100.41758
Nell Glueckstal Cemetery45.49775-99.73066
Old Zion Cemetery45.35502-100.17219
Peace Cemetery45.56587-99.91608
Saint Paul Cemetery45.52199-99.81122
Salzsiedler Cemetery45.56582-99.99705
Schnaible Cemetery45.54363-99.89404
Selby Memorial Gardens45.49387-100.04011
Theodore Cemetery45.36155-99.77936
United Church of Christ Cemetery45.50849-99.89465

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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