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Perkins County
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county in South Dakota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Dakota
- Founded
- November 3, 1908 (established), 1909 (organized)
- Named after
- Henry E. Perkins
- Seat
- Bison
- Largest city
- Lemmon
- Total
- 2,891 sq mi (7,490 km )
- Land
- 2,870 sq mi (7,400 km )
- Water
- 20 sq mi (52 km ) 0.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 2,853
- Density
- 0.988/sq mi (0.381/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- At-large
- Website
- www .perkinscounty .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- South Dakota
- Contains
- Bison
- Capital
- Bison
- Population
- 2835
- Area
- 7487
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00
- Shares border with
- Butte County
- Official website
- www.perkinscounty.org
- Image
- Lemmon Petrified Park 2.jpg
- Households
- 1329
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- Commons category
- Perkins County, South Dakota
- topic's main category
- Category:Perkins County, South Dakota
- water as percent of area
- 0.7
- native label
- Perkins County
- inception
- 1909-00-00
- different from
- Perkins County
- per capita income
- 32369
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Encyclopedic overview
Perkins County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,835. Its county seat is Bison. The county was established in 1908 and organized in 1909. It was named for Sturgis, South Dakota, official Henry E. Perkins.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Perkins County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.