County named for war criminal has South Dakota's oldest residents

South Dakota's population is graying at an increasing rate.

While the overall percentage of children under 18 in South Dakota has decreased, there were 14,825 more children in the state in 2016 than there were in 1990—213,287 compared to 198,462. At the same time, the number of adult South Dakotans grew by almost 150,000, from 497,542 in 1990 to 652,167 in 2016. Custer County, which was also the state’s oldest county in 2016, had the lowest percentage of children in the state at 15.9 percent. Todd County had the highest percentage at 40.8 percent.

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The ritual burning of the mountain pine beetle is scheduled again in a Black Hills town named for a war criminal.