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County Seat: Madison
Year Organized: 1873
Square Miles: 563

TOWNSHIPS
Badus, Chester, Clarno, Concord, Farmington, Franklin, Herman,
Lake View, Le Roy, Nunda, Orland, Rutland, Summit, Wayne, Wentworth, Winfred


Cities and Towns
* Chester * Franklin * Junius * Madison * Nunda
* Ramona * Wentworth * Winfred


Madison is the largest city and the county seat

Other communities (at some time or another) include:
Battle Creek - Delmage Post Office - Gracevale Hutterite Colony - Henkin
Herman - Prairie Queen - Rutland - Seranac - Wentworth - Winfred



Online Data

Biographies

Birth Records

Cemeteries

Census

Churches

County History

Death Records

Extinct Towns

Land Records

Marriages

Military

Native Americans

Newspapers Items

Pioneer Women

Taxes



Featured Updates

Prairie Queen Church 

Military: Arlin Bredeson Korea

Pioneer Women

 


Lake County Map


SURROUNDING COUNTIES:

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Brookings County, South Dakota - northeast
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Moody County, South Dakota - east
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Minnehaha County, South Dakota - southeast
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McCook County, South Dakota - southwest
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Miner County, South Dakota - west
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Kingsbury County, South Dakota - northwest



A Little About Lake County

Courthouse info:
200 East Center
County Courthouse
Madison, SD 57042-2956
Phone: (605) 256-7600


 

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