Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1912-02-09
SOME FACTS ABOUT SOUTH DAKOTA.

Iue speClal eleCtlOn TO De held soon.
SOME FACTS ABOUT SOUTH DAKOTA.
Some Interesting Data Concerning the Great
State of South Dakota.
South Dakota has 67 counties, of
which 67 are organized. while ten are
and form parts Of Indian
The population is shown
for 63 counties only, as 1t is
Impossible to show by counties the
population included in Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation. The population
of the 63 counties ranges from 262 in
Steering county to 29,63l In Minnehshs.
The following territorial changes
have been made In the organized coun.
ties Of South Dakota since 1900: Corson
county Was organized in 1909 from that
part of Standing Rock Indian Reservs.
ton located In South Dakota; Tripp
county was organized in 1909 from part
of the Rosebud Indian Reservation;
Harding and Perkins counties were
organized in 1909 from parts of Butte
county; and part Of Union county was
ceded in 1908 to the state of Nebraska.
Partly because Of the formation of
new counties since 1900, partly because
certain counties which were returned
separately in 1910 we're returned under
Iudian reservations in 1900, and partly
the population In 1910 of certain coun.
ties could not be separated from that
Of the Indian reservations in which
they were located, the extent of increase
or decrease in population can be reck.
oned separately for 50 counties. The
population of the territory formerly
known as Rosebud Iudian Reservation
but now comprising the counties of
Mellette, Todd, Tripp, and parts of
Bennett and Observation-Disclosures
1852, or 1862 per cent; while the COM
bined counties of Butte, Harding and
Perkins increased 1862, or 5O7 6 per
cent. The territory now comprising
Corson county, which was organized
from Standing Rock Indian Ressrva-
tion, increased 1871, or 76.7 per cent
in population. The combined populs.
tion OF Armstrong, Dewey, Schnasse
and Sterling counties which were organ.
lied from Cheyenne River Indian Res
ervation, decreased %, or 1.2 per cent.
while the Pine Ridge Indian Reserva-
tion, comprising Shannon, Washington
and parts of Bennett and Washabaugh,
decreased 220, or 32 per cent. OF the
62 counties for which the actual rates Of
increase or decrease can be determined,
40 counties increased In population
during the last decade, the rates of in
crease ranging from 35 per cent In
Hutchinson county to 1,O16.7 per cent
in Stanley county, and the absolute in
creases from 1863 In Moody county to
1864 in Stanley county. Three coun.
ties, Union, Clay and Buffalo, decreased
in population during the last decade,
the rates of decrease being 4.3, 6 5, and
11.2, respectively. The absolute de-.
creases were pol in Buffalo, AT In
Union and Cos in Clay county. The
aggregate increase of population from
1900 to 1910 in the 40 counties and three
combinations that show an increase is
183, $50; the aggregate decrease of pop.
ulation in the three counties and two
combinations that show decrease is
1882. The difference, 1872, 3l8, is, Of
course, the total increase Of population
: in the state.
The total land area Of the state is &c.
> 1868 square miles. The average number
OF persons to the square mile in 1910
was 76; in 1900 and 1890 1t was 81 and
4.5, respectively. The average number
per square mile for continental United
States as whole in 1910 was 800.
Stanley county, with 4,156 square
) miles, has the largest area and Sterling
: county, with 349 square miles, has the
smallest area. Minnehsha county, con-
tanning Sioux Falls city. and the high
!, est density of any county, namely,
1854 persons per square mile, while
Schnasse county has the lowest density,
O3. The Pine Ridge Indian Reserva-
: tion, which is returned separately, has
Z an area of 4,374 square miles, and q
density of l.5 persons per square
mile.
LET'S HAVE 1T.