Roberts County, South Dakota

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Roberts County, South Dakota

Coordinates: 45°37′N 96°57′W / 45.62°N 96.95°W

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Roberts County
County
Roberts County Courthouse
Location within the U.S. state of South Dakota
South Dakota's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 45°37′N 96°57′W / 45.62°N 96.95°W / 45.62; -96.95
Country	United States
State	South Dakota
Founded	March 8, 1883 (organized)^[1] August 6, 1883 (organized)
Named for	S. G. Roberts
Seat	Sisseton
Largest city	Sisseton
Area
• Total	1,136 sq mi (2,940 km²)
• Land	1,101 sq mi (2,850 km²)
• Water	35 sq mi (90 km²) 3.1%
Population (2020)
• Total	10,280
• Estimate (2023)	10,206
• Density	9.0/sq mi (3.5/km²)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional district	At-large
Website	roberts.sdcounties.org

Roberts County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,280.^[2] Its county seat is Sisseton.^[3] The county was named either for S. G. Roberts of Fargo, North Dakota, or for Solomon Robar, an early local French fur trader.^[1] It was created on March 8, 1883, and fully organized by August 6 of that year. Its boundary was altered once, in 1885.^[4]

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1890	1,997		—
1900	12,216		511.7%
1910	14,897		21.9%
1920	16,514		10.9%
1930	15,782		−4.4%
1940	15,887		0.7%
1950	14,929		−6.0%
1960	13,190		−11.6%
1970	11,678		−11.5%
1980	10,911		−6.6%
1990	9,914		−9.1%
2000	10,016		1.0%
2010	10,149		1.3%
2020	10,280		1.3%
2023 (est.)	10,206	^[8]	−0.7%
U.S. Decennial Census^[9] 1790-1960^[10] 1900-1990^[11] 1990-2000^[12] 2010-2020^[2]

Year	Republican		Democratic		Third party(ies)
Year	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
2024	2,514	60.59%	1,560	37.60%	75	1.81%
2020	2,404	55.82%	1,828	42.44%	75	1.74%
2016	2,144	55.13%	1,540	39.60%	205	5.27%
2012	1,883	44.24%	2,302	54.09%	71	1.67%
2008	1,781	39.26%	2,672	58.91%	83	1.83%
2004	2,396	48.09%	2,527	50.72%	59	1.18%
2000	2,237	54.91%	1,700	41.73%	137	3.36%
1996	1,646	37.99%	2,186	50.45%	501	11.56%
1992	1,437	34.87%	1,716	41.64%	968	23.49%
1988	2,012	46.67%	2,267	52.59%	32	0.74%
1984	2,767	57.17%	2,063	42.62%	10	0.21%
1980	2,904	57.98%	1,829	36.51%	276	5.51%
1976	1,915	39.73%	2,890	59.96%	15	0.31%
1972	2,187	42.29%	2,976	57.54%	9	0.17%
1968	2,225	42.68%	2,651	50.85%	337	6.46%
1964	1,931	35.12%	3,567	64.88%	0	0.00%
1960	2,857	48.05%	3,089	51.95%	0	0.00%
1956	2,854	46.79%	3,246	53.21%	0	0.00%
1952	3,566	58.56%	2,524	41.44%	0	0.00%
1948	2,211	39.12%	3,277	57.98%	164	2.90%
1944	2,721	47.36%	3,024	52.64%	0	0.00%
1940	3,504	48.30%	3,750	51.70%	0	0.00%
1936	1,934	32.50%	3,820	64.19%	197	3.31%
1932	1,381	21.69%	4,440	69.72%	547	8.59%
1928	2,966	52.73%	2,619	46.56%	40	0.71%
1924	1,744	40.99%	215	5.05%	2,296	53.96%
1920	2,335	49.73%	447	9.52%	1,913	40.75%
1916	1,259	47.17%	1,191	44.62%	219	8.21%
1912	0	0.00%	812	33.02%	1,647	66.98%
1908	1,562	61.02%	777	30.35%	221	8.63%
1904	2,282	75.02%	584	19.20%	176	5.79%
1900	1,875	62.11%	1,067	35.34%	77	2.55%
1896	1,324	58.20%	929	40.84%	22	0.97%
1892	538	62.85%	68	7.94%	250	29.21%

v t e Municipalities and communities of Roberts County, South Dakota, United States
County seat: Sisseton
Cities	Sisseton Wilmot
Towns	Claire City Corona New Effington Ortley Peever Rosholt Summit White Rock
CDPs	Agency Village Long Hollow Peever Flats White Rock Colony
Other communities	Goodwill Hammer
Townships	Agency Alto Becker Bossko Bryant Dry Wood Lake Easter Enterprise Garfield Geneseo Goodwill Grant Harmon Hart Lake Lawrence Lee Lien Lockwood Long Hollow Minnesota Norway One Road Ortley Sisseton Spring Grove Springdale Summit Victor White Rock
Indian reservation	Lake Traverse Indian Reservation‡
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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