Corson County
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county in South Dakota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Dakota
- Named after
- Dighton Corson
- Seat
- McIntosh
- Largest city
- McLaughlin
- Total
- 2,530 sq mi (6,600 km )
- Land
- 2,470 sq mi (6,400 km )
- Water
- 60 sq mi (160 km ) 2.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 3,781
- Density
- 1.58/sq mi (0.610/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- At-large
- Website
- corson .sdcounties .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- South Dakota
- Contains
- McIntosh
- Capital
- McIntosh
- Population
- 3902
- Area
- 6551
- Shares border with
- Emmons County
- Official website
- corson.sdcounties.org
- Image
- Corson County Courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 1205
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- Commons category
- Corson County, South Dakota
- topic's main category
- Category:Corson County, South Dakota
- inception
- 1909-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 2.4
- native label
- Corson County
- per capita income
- 16521
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Encyclopedic overview
Triceratops skull from Corson County. Collections of Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Corson County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,902. Its county seat is McIntosh. The county was named for Dighton Corson, a native of Maine, who came to the Black Hills in 1876, and in 1877 began practicing law at Deadwood.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Corson County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.