Clay County, South Dakota, United States

Details for Clay County

Name

Clay County

Place Type

County

Located in

South Dakota, United States

County Seat

Vermillion

Coordinates

Latitude		42.9166610		42° 54' 60" N
Longitude		-96.9586567		96° 57' 31.2" W

Population

13,186

Elevation

372 m

Surrounding Counties

Lincoln N
Union SE
Dixon (Nebraska) S
Cedar (Nebraska) SW
Yankton NW
Turner N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1265764

Histopolis Place ID

931475160

Updated May 12, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Clay County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

The Political Graveyard: Clay County, S.Dak. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > South Dakota > Clay County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > South Dakota > Clay County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/SD/Clay/ (27 Apr 2010)

Clay County, South Dakota SD, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Clay County, South Dakota SD, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=12799 (22 Nov 2008)

Clay County, South Dakota Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Clay County, South Dakota
http://www.interment.net/us/sd/clay.htm (16 May 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2371 (1 Sep 2009)

Clay County, South Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_County,_South_Dakota

South Dakota Gravestone Photo Project - Cemetery Index [South Dakota Gravestone Photos]
Research your South Dakota ancestors and family history by searching our online database of South Dakota gravestone photos. Locate South Dakota gravestone images of your descendants and discover your South Dakota roots.
http://southdakotagravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=13 (2 Dec 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Clay County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=12799&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (21 Dec 2007)

Clay County SDGENWEB Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/clay/clay.html (31 Jan 2010)

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Surveys in Clay County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 22 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Clay County. You can navigate to any of the 22 survey townships that overlap Clay County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships, Cities and Towns of Clay County

12 Townships, 2 Cities, 1 Town (Township is assumed unless noted)

Bethel	Fairview	Garfield	Glenwood
Irene (city)	Meckling	Norway	Pleasant Valley
Prairie Center	Riverside	Spirit Mound	Star
Vermillion	Vermillion (city)	Wakonda (town)

Cities of Clay County

2 Cities, 1 Town, 19 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Alsen	Bloomingdale	Bluff Center (historical u.p.)	Burbank
Clay Point	Colfax Corner	Dalesburg	Glenwood (historical u.p.)
Greenfield	Hub City	Irene (city)	Komstad (historical u.p.)
Lodi	Marshalltown (historical u.p.)	Meckling	Riverside (historical u.p.)
Saybrook (historical u.p.)	Shaw (historical u.p.)	Star Corner (historical u.p.)	Vermillion (city)
Wakonda (town)	Westreville

Cemeteries of Clay County

25 Cemeteries, 4 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Bluff Center (historical cemetery)	Bluff View	Clay Creek	Clay Point
Columkill	Danefield Seventh Day Advent	Dowlin	Evergreen
Fairview	Houde (historical cemetery)	Hovde	Lodi
Meckling	Mortvedt	Pleasant Valley	Riverside
Rockfield	Saint Johns	Saint Patricks	Saint Peters (Glenwood Township)
Saint Peters (Prairie Center Township)	South Lodi	Spirit Mound	St. Johns (*)
St. Patricks (*)	St. Peters (* Glenwood Township)	St. Peters (* Prairie Center Township)	Taylor
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