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Minnehaha County Data

County Seat: Sioux Falls
Year Organized: 1862
Square Miles: 809
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Minnehaha county is situated in the southeastern part of Dakota, on the Minnesota State line, and embraces about 810 square miles, or 523,240 acres.
Sioux Falls, the county seat, is situated in the southern part of the county, and occupies an elevation of 1,413 feet above the level of the sea. Its population is bet ween 6,000 and 7,000, and constantly increasing.
The city takes its name from its proximity to the celebrated Falls of the Big Sioux river, along the sinuous banks of which it is picturesquely located.
[from "Dakota", 1885; Compiled by O. H. Holt]

Minnehaha co map

1913 Map

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Populated Places
Baltic ~ Benclare ~ Booge ~ Brandon ~ Colton ~ Corson ~ Crooks ~ Dell Rapids ~ East Sioux Falls
Ellis ~ Eminija ~ Garretson ~ Hartford ~ Humboldt ~ Huntimer ~ Lyons ~ Renner
Rowena ~ Sherman ~ Sioux Falls ~ South Sioux Falls ~ West Sioux Falls ~ Valley Springs

County Records

WEBSITE UPDATES

APRIL 2024
BIOS: Transcribed by Robin Line - Benjamin Franklin Campbell, John Emmett Carland, Jervis W. Carter, Anton Christopherson, Charles A. Christopherson, David E. Cloyd, John T. Cogan, James Walter Cone, Daniel J. Conway, Erastus T. Cressey, Charles Lewis Brockway, Thomas Henderson Brown, H. F. Brownell, Theophile Bruguier, Robert Buchanan, Hugh Latimer Burleson, George W. Burnside, Clarence C. Caldwell, Ernest W. Caldwell (2), George J. Danforth, Charles Manley Day
BIRTHS: Transcribed by Robin Line - Peterson Daughter, Sewenson Daughter, Scholton Son
NEWS-CRIME: Transcribed by Robin Line - Anton Johnson, James O’Brien
NEWS-COMMUNITY: Transcribed by Robin Line - Brackett’s Battalion of Minnesota Cavalry
OBITS: Mrs. Thomas Raines, Reveness Boy. Transcribed by Robin Line - Mattie Campbell, John Emmett Carland, J. W. Carter, Emily M. Cone, Daniel J. Conway, Julia Pettee (Brooks) Cressey, Sarah Ellen (Daggett) Brockway, Thomas Henderson Brown, Theophile Bruguier, Robert Buchanan, John Timon Burke, Hugh Latimore Burleson, Ernest W. Caldwell, Louis Crane, Mrs. Salome Ducey, E. E. Frisbie, B. Headley, David Clinton Jewett, Tom Knutson, Mrs. William McCain, Kathleen Poole, James V. Gillett, Hans Bothner, Samuel A. Brown, Claude F. Wood
PEOPLE: Transcribed by Robin Line - Col. Benjamin Franklin Campbell

JULY 2023
BIOS: transcribed by Robin Line - Charles P. Booge, Lasse Bothun, Fred Grant Boughton, Frank L. Boyce, John A. Egge, Charles J. Johnson, Clayton W. Locke, Harry T. Parmley, Leonard Renner, Albert H. Stites
OBITS: transcribed by Robin Line - Charles P. Booge, Frank L. Boyce
PEOPLE: transcribed by Robin Line - Rev. J. H. Todd

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