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Ziebach County, South Dakota

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1911formed

2,413pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1993. Most listings are in or near Dupree.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Ziebach County Courthouse	Dupree	Building	1993

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Ziebach was formed in 1911 (1911-02-01) from Armstrong, all of SCHNASSE, all of STERLING.

ZIEBACH created from ARMSTRONG (extinct), all of SCHNASSE (extinct), all of STERLING (extinct), and all of Non-County Area 1; SCHNASSE, STERLING, and NCA 1 eliminated. ZIEBACH was in a different part of the state from ZIEBACH (original, extinct).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ziebach County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,718	2,875	2,606	2,495	2,308	2,519	2,413

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

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

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Buffalo Cemetery	44.69129	-101.36551
Eaglestaff Cemetery	44.77241	-101.99627
Iron Lightning Cemetery	45.17257	-101.85965
Little Dog Cemetery	44.68612	-101.67633
Red Elm Cemetery	45.04683	-101.79232
Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery	44.76813	-101.8452
Saint Luke Cemetery	45.22247	-101.65848
Saint Mark's Cemetery	44.93942	-101.2807
Saint Mark's Cemetery	44.72915	-101.82737
Saint Pius Cemetery	44.75571	-101.94377

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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