Campbell County, South Dakota

Campbell County was formed in 1873 and organized in 1884. La Grace served as the first county seat; in 1888 the seat was transferred to Mound City. By 1911 the communities of Artas, Herreid and Pollock had the largest populations because they were located on a branch of the Soo Line. ==Geography==

Campbell County lies on the north side of South Dakota; its north boundary line abuts the south boundary line of the state of North Dakota. The Missouri River flows southward along the county's west boundary line. The county terrain consists of semi-arid low rolling hills, a portion of which is dedicated to agriculture. The terrain slopes to the south and east, with its highest point occurring on the county's north boundary line, toward the NE corner: . The county has a total area of , of which is land and (4.8%) is water. The eastern portion of South Dakota's counties (48 of 66) observe Central Time; the western counties (18 of 66) observe Mountain Time. Campbell County is the westernmost of the SD counties to observe Central Time. Major highways • U.S. Highway 83 • South Dakota Highway 10 • South Dakota Highway 271 • South Dakota Highway 1804 Adjacent counties • Emmons County, North Dakota – north • McIntosh County, North Dakota – northeast • McPherson County – east • Walworth County – south • Corson County – west (boundary of Mountain Time) Protected areas • Pocasse National Wildlife Refuge • Rogo Bay State Game Production Area • Salt Lake State Game Production Area • Sand Lake State Game Production Area • Shaw Creek State Lakeside Use Area • West Pollock State Recreation Area Lakes • McClarem Lake • Lake Oahe (part) • Lake Pocasse • Salt Lake • Sand Lake ==Demographics==

2020 census As of the 2020 census, there were 1,377 people, 640 households, and 397 families residing in the county. Of the residents, 20.0% were under the age of 18 and 27.7% were 65 years of age or older; the median age was 53.5 years. For every 100 females there were 108.0 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 105.6 males. Of the 640 households, 22.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them and 18.3% had a female householder with no spouse or partner present. About 33.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 21.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. Campbell County has the highest percentage of Presbyterians in the United States. ==Communities==

There are no organized civil townships in Campbell County. Artas Township and Mound City Township are named, while Herreid Township, Pollock Township, Sand Lake Township and Stout's Lake Township are implied, in a 1911 map book. • La Grace (ghost town, former county seat; Coordinates: 45.88000, -100.37190) • North Campbell • South Campbell • Tilso ==Politics==

With its rural German-American heritage, Campbell is an overwhelmingly Republican county. It has only once been carried by a Democratic presidential candidate, during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s landslide victory of 1932. Nonetheless, in the following election when FDR gained an even more emphatic victory by carrying forty-six of forty-eight states, his Republican opponent Alf Landon carried Campbell County by twenty-five percentage points, making the county Landon's second-strongest in the Plains States (behind Brown County in his home state). Since 1940, no Democrat has so much as equaled Roosevelt's 1936 share of the vote, and even before 1932, only William Jennings Bryan in 1896 gained over forty percent of the vote for the Democratic Party. In 1952, Campbell was Dwight D. Eisenhower's third-strongest county in the nation, and in 1964 it rivalled Hooker County in Nebraska and that famous GOP bastion Jackson County in Kentucky as Barry Goldwater’s strongest county outside the South. ==See also==