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Custer County
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county in South Dakota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Dakota
- Founded
- 1875 (created), 1877 (organized)
- Named after
- George Armstrong Custer
- Seat
- Custer
- Largest city
- Custer
- Total
- 1,559 sq mi (4,040 km )
- Land
- 1,557 sq mi (4,030 km )
- Water
- 2.1 sq mi (5.4 km ) 0.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 9,431
- Density
- 5.342/sq mi (2.063/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- At-large
- Website
- www .custercountysd .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- George Armstrong Custer
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- South Dakota
- Contains
- Custer
- Capital
- Custer
- Population
- 8318
- Area
- 4038
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00
- Shares border with
- Weston County
- Official website
- www.custercountysd.com
- Image
- Custer County Courthouse, Custer.jpg
- Households
- 3893
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- topic's main category
- Category:Custer County, South Dakota
- Commons category
- Custer County, South Dakota
- inception
- 1875-00-00
- different from
- Custer County
- water as percent of area
- 0.1
- native label
- Custer County
- per capita income
- 35677
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Encyclopedic overview
Custer County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,318. Its county seat is Custer. The county was created in 1875, and was organized in 1877. It was named after General George Armstrong Custer.
Custer County is home to two of the three longest caves in the United States: Jewel Cave National Monument and Wind Cave National Park.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Custer County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.