Butte County, South Dakota

Butte County
Butte County
County
	Butte County Courthouse
	Location within the U.S. state of South Dakota
	South Dakota's location within the U.S.
	Coordinates: 44°55′N 103°29′W / 44.91°N 103.49°W
Country	United States
State	South Dakota
Founded	March 2, 1883; May 6, 1883
Named for	Hills in the county
Seat	Belle Fourche
Largest city	Belle Fourche
Area
• Total	2,266 sq mi (5,870 km2)
• Land	2,250 sq mi (5,800 km2)
• Water	16 sq mi (40 km2) 0.7%
Population (2020)
• Total	10,243
• Estimate (2023)	10,863
• Density	4.5/sq mi (1.7/km2)
Time zone	UTC−7 (Mountain)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
Congressional district	At-large
Website	butte.sdcounties.org

Butte County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,243.^[1] Its county seat is Belle Fourche.^[2] The county was established in the Dakota Territory on March 2, 1883, and given the descriptive name based on the French word for a hill.^[3]

^ "State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
^ Joseph Nathan Kane, The American Counties (4th Ed.), (The Scarecrow Press, 1983), pp. 68, 479