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Hyde County
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county in South Dakota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Dakota
- Named after
- James Hyde
- Seat
- Highmore
- Largest city
- Highmore
- Total
- 866 sq mi (2,240 km )
- Land
- 861 sq mi (2,230 km )
- Water
- 5.6 sq mi (15 km ) 0.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 1,191
- Density
- 1.47/sq mi (0.566/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- At-large
- Website
- hydeco .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- South Dakota
- Contains
- Highmore
- Capital
- Highmore
- Population
- 1262
- Area
- 2244
- Elevation
- 561
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Potter County
- Official website
- hydeco.org
- Households
- 616
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- topic has template
- Template:Hyde County, South Dakota
- topic's main category
- Category:Hyde County, South Dakota
- Commons category
- Hyde County, South Dakota
- inception
- 1873-00-00
- different from
- Hyde County
- water as percent of area
- 0.6
- native label
- Hyde County
- per capita income
- 33833
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Encyclopedic overview
Hyde County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,262, making it the second-least populous county in South Dakota. Its county seat is Highmore. The county was founded in 1873, as a county of the Dakota Territory, and organized in 1883. It was named for James Hyde, a member of legislature in the 1870s.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hyde County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.