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There are 66 counties in the state of South Dakota

 

 

  		 

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Campbell County, South Dakota

Campbell County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Mound City
Year Organized: 1873
Square Miles: 736		 Court House:

P.O. Box 37
County Courthouse
Mound City, SD 57646-0037
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Campbell is named for Newton B. Campbell of Scotland, son of the famous Gen. Charles T. Campbell, "the man whom Lincoln made a brigadier general upon condition that he should die immediately."

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Campbell County was surveyed in 1883-84 and organized on petition to Governor Ordway in the spring of 1884. The first session of the board of county Commissioners was held at Le Grace in April 1884. All parts of the county were rapidly settled after the establishment of the new town of Mound City in 1884. Mound City, who derived its name from near-by Indian mounds, became the county seat in 1888.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 771 square miles (1,998 kmē), of which, 736 square miles (1,906 kmē) of it is land and 36 square miles (92 kmē) of it (4.61%) is water.
 

Neighboring Counties:
  • Emmons County, North Dakota - north
  • McIntosh County, North Dakota - northeast
  • McPherson County, South Dakota - east
  • Walworth County, South Dakota - south
  • Corson County, South Dakota - west
Cities and Towns:
- Campbell township  
- Herreid city Incorporated Area
- Mound City (County Seat) town Incorporated Area
- Pollock town Incorporated Area
County Resources:

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."
 

 

 

 

 
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