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Map of South Dakota's House and Senate legislative districts with detailed insets maps of Rapid City and Sioux Falls. This map shows the individual counties in the state. For a map without the counties see Image:Map of South Dakota's legislative districts.svg: Date: 27 April 2008: Source: Own work: Author: Dcmacnut
South Dakota is the 17th-largest state in the country. South Dakota has a humid continental climate in the east and the Black Hills, and a semi-arid climate in the west outside of the Black Hills, featuring four very distinct seasons, and the ecology of the state features plant and animal species typical of a North American temperate grassland ...
As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,852, making it the 6th most populous county in South Dakota. [1] Its county seat is Sturgis . [ 2 ] The county was created in 1889 and named for Fort Meade, which was garrisoned as a United States military post in the area in 1878 and itself named for General George Meade .
Hutchinson County is the most heavily Mennonite-populated county of South Dakota. German-speaking Mennonites from Russia settled in the county beginning in 1874 until the early 1880s. [ 15 ] South Dakota has the nation's largest population of Hutterites , [ 16 ] a communal Anabaptist group that emigrated also from Russia during the same period ...
The area is situated on the site of Dakota Sioux trails that connected two sites of cultural significance to the Dakota people, the pipestone quarries in southwestern Minnesota and the Sioux Crossing of the Three Rivers, near present-day Fort Thompson. [2] South Dakota Highway 34 now roughly follows this route.
Jackson County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,806. [1] Its county seat is Kadoka. [2]
Hamlin County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,164. [1] Its county seat is Hayti. [2]
The terrain generally slopes to the south, although high points (ca. 1,814' ASL) are found on the north and south boundary lines and points between. [5] Lake County has a total area of 575 square miles (1,490 km 2), of which 563 square miles (1,460 km 2) is land and 12 square miles (31 km 2) (2.1%) is water. [6]