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Charles Mix County
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- South Dakota
- Contains
- Marty
- Capital
- Lake Andes
- Population
- 9373
- Area
- 2979
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Lyman County
- Official website
- charlesmix.sdcounties.org
- Image
- Charles Mix County courthouse from NW 6.JPG
- Households
- 3149
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- Commons category
- Charles Mix County, South Dakota
- topic's main category
- Category:Charles Mix County, South Dakota
- inception
- 1862-00-00
- different from
- Charles City County
- water as percent of area
- 4.6
- native label
- Charles Mix County
- per capita income
- 23626
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charles Mix County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.