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Clark County, South Dakota

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

County Seat: Clark
Year Organized: 1873
Square Miles: 958
Court House:

P.O. Box 294
County Courthouse
Clark, SD 57225-0294

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Clark is named after Clark House, a local inn that was the county's first headquarters.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Clark County is located in the northeastern part of the state, and was created from Hanson County in 1873.

The first settlement in Clark County was in June 1879. In May of 1881, the governor appointed county Commissioners who then met and organized the county. They passed a resolution declaring that the Clark House, owned and kept by Mrs. M. E. Greenslet, be designated as the official headquarters. This house was 1/2 mile north of where the present county seat of Clark County now stands. The Chicago and Northwestern railway reached the townsite of Clark in June 1882. Clark, the county seat, is the largest town and is located in almost the exact center of the county. It was settled in the fall of 1882.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 968 square miles (2,507 kmē), of which, 958 square miles (2,481 kmē) of it is land and 10 square miles (26 kmē) of it (1.02%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

  • Day County, South Dakota - north
  • Codington County, South Dakota - east
  • Hamlin County, South Dakota - southeast
  • Kingsbury County, South Dakota - south
  • Beadle County, South Dakota - southwest
  • Spink County, South Dakota - west

Cities and Towns:

- Ash township
- Blaine township
- Bradley town Incorporated Area
- Clark (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Collins township
- Darlington township
- Day township
- Elrod township
- Fordham township
- Foxton township
- Garden City town Incorporated Area
- Garfield township
- Hague township
- Lake township
- Lincoln township
- Logan township
- Maydell township
- Merton township
- Mount Pleasant township
- Naples town Incorporated Area
- Pleasant township
- Raymond town Incorporated Area
- Rosedale township
- Spring Valley township
- Thorp township
- Vienna town Incorporated Area
- Warren township
- Washington township
- Willow Lake city Incorporated Area
- Woodland township

County Resources:

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County Resources
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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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