Place:Bennett, South Dakota, United States

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NameBennett
Alt namesBennettsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates43.183°N 101.683°W
Located inSouth Dakota, United States     (1909 - )
Contained Places
Census-designated place
Allen
Inhabited place
Bad Wound
Black Eyes
Blackpipe
Harrington
Martin
Patricia
Plenty Bears
Swett
Tuthill
Vetal
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Bennett County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,381. Its county seat is Martin. The county lies completely within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. To the east is the Rosebud Indian Reservation, occupied by Sicangu Oyate, also known the Upper Brulé Sioux Nation and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (RST), a branch of the Lakota people.

The North American continental pole of inaccessibility is in Bennett County, located 1650 km (1024 mi) from the nearest coastline, between Allen and Kyle (Oglala Lakota County) at .

Historically, ranching and dry land farming have been the chief agricultural pursuits possible given climate and soil conditions.

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History

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This land has for centuries been the traditional territory of the Oglala Lakota, also known as the Sioux; it has been part of their legally defined territory since the treaty of 1851 and has remained within its legal boundaries through various other Treaties and Acts that reduced their land base to the current boundaries of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation when the reservation was created by the Act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. 888). Despite its reservation status, most of the county was opened for settlement by the Act of May 27, 1910, where the US Congress "authorized and directed the Secretary of Interior to sell and dispose of all that portion of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, lying and being in Bennett County". Open settlement was ended by a Secretarial Order of June 10, 1936, which restored "to tribal ownership of all lands which are now, or may hereafter be, classified as undisposed-of surplus opened lands of the Pine Ridge Reservation...."

The county was created in 1909, with land partitioned from Fall River County. On April 27, 1912, the county's first board of commissioners was elected. In November 1912, residents chose the town of Martin as the county seat.

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1907 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1907 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1907 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1909 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1910 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1912 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1920 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1910 96
1920 1,924
1930 4,590
1940 3,983
1950 3,396
1960 3,053
1970 3,088
1980 3,044
1990 3,206
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External links

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