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South Dakota's original 78 counties

Can you name the 78 original counties that formed South Dakota when it became a state in 1889? Be careful, many of these counties no longer exist!
Renamed counties have new names in parentheses
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County
Date Formed
Dissolved
Bon Homme
1862
 
Brookings
1862
 
Charles Mix
1862
 
Clay
1862
 
Deuel
1862
 
Gregory
1862
 
Hutchinson
1862
 
Minnehaha
1862
 
Todd (original)
1862
1897
Union
1862
 
Yankton
1862
 
Lincoln
1867
 
Hanson
1871
 
Turner
1871
 
Boreman
1873
1909
Buffalo
1873
 
Campbell
1873
 
Clark
1873
 
Davison
1873
 
Dewey
1873
 
Douglas
1873
 
Edmunds
1873
 
Faulk
1873
 
Grant
1873
 
Hamlin
1873
 
Hand
1873
 
Hughes
1873
 
Hyde
1873
 
Kingsbury
1873
 
Lake
1873
 
Lyman
1873
 
McCook
1873
 
McPherson
1873
 
Meyer
1873
1909
Miner
1873
 
Moody
1873
 
Potter
1873
 
Pratt
1873
1909
Presho
1873
1907
County
Date Formed
Dissolved
Spink
1873
 
Stanley
1873
 
Sully
1873
 
Tripp
1873
 
Walworth
1873
 
Brule
1875
 
Custer
1875
 
Delano
1875
1898
Lawrence
1875
 
Luganbeel
1875
1909
Pennington
1875
 
Shannon (Oglala Lakota)
1875
 
Codington
1877
 
Ziebach (original)
1877
1898
Aurora
1879
 
Beadle
1879
 
Brown
1879
 
Day
1879
 
Harding
1881
1898, recreated 1909
Martin
1881
1898
Butte
1883
 
Choteau
1883
1898
Ewing
1883
1894
Fall River
1883
 
Jackson
1883
1909, recreated 1914
Jerauld
1883
 
Nowlin
1883
1898
Pyatt (Armstrong)
1883
1952
Rhinehart
1883
1898
Roberts
1883
 
Sanborn
1883
 
Schnasse
1883
1911
Scobey
1883
1898
Sterling
1883
1911
Wagner
1883
1898
Washabaugh
1883
1983
Washington
1883
1943
Marshall
1885
 
Meade
1889
 
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