Retiring Guy's Digest: Population loss in South Dakota: McPherson County

Friday, July 5, 2019

Population loss in South Dakota: McPherson County

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Population loss as in major -- 50% or more. (New series.)

Source: Wikipedia (McPherson County, Leola)

Leola is the county seat of McIntosh County.

Population loss by degrees: 80-89%, 70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:

15.3% - McPherson County
27.8% - South Dakota
30.9% - U.S.

Percentage of population 65 and older:

28.1% - McPherson County
16.6% - South Dakota
15.6% - U.S.

A Democratic candidate for president has won McPherson County just twice, in 1928 and 1932.

Leola Library

Related reading:
Ecologist Buys Land in Prairie. (The New York Times, 7/20/1975)

He said the refuge, which includes about 7,600 acres of grasslands, is situated six miles west of Leola, S.D., in McPherson,County, and will be named for Samuel H. Ordway Jr., a New York City lawyer, ecologist and author, who died in 1971.

Mr. Ordway was a founder and is a former president of the Washington‐based Conservation Foundation, which “conducts research, education and information programs to develop knowledge and improve techniques to stumulate the public and private decision‐makers, and action to improve the quality, of the environment.”