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Grant County
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county in South Dakota, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Dakota
- Founded
- 1873 (created), January 8, 1878 (organized)
- Named after
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Seat
- Milbank
- Largest city
- Milbank
- Total
- 688 sq mi (1,780 km )
- Land
- 681 sq mi (1,760 km )
- Water
- 6.1 sq mi (16 km ) 0.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 7,534
- Density
- 11.1/sq mi (4.28/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- At-large
- Website
- grantcounty .sd .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Grant County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,556. The county seat is Milbank. The county was founded in 1873 and organized in 1878. It is named for Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grant County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.