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Charles Mix County

county in South Dakota, United States of America

Key facts

Country: United States
State: South Dakota
Founded: 1862 (created), 1879 (organized)
Named after: Charles Eli Mix
Seat: Lake Andes
Largest city: Wagner
Total: 1,150 sq mi (3,000 km )
Land: 1,097 sq mi (2,840 km )
Water: 53 sq mi (140 km ) 4.6%
Estimate 2025: 9,303
Density: 8.5/sq mi (3.3/km )
Time zone: UTC−6 ( Central )
Summer dst: UTC−5 ( CDT )
Congressional district: At-large
Website: charlesmix .sdcounties .org

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Charles Mix County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,373. Its county seat is Lake Andes. The county was created in 1862 and organized in 1879. It was named for Charles Eli Mix, an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs influential in signing a peace treaty with the local Lakota Indian tribes. The easternmost approximately 60% of the county comprises the Yankton Indian Reservation.

The Papineau Trading Post, whose building is now in Geddes, South Dakota, was an early county seat. Geddes tried to wrest the county seat from Wheeler in 1900, 1904, and 1908. The Charles Mix County Courthouse in Lake Andes was built in 1918.