Editing Haakon County, South Dakota (section)

==History==
The county was created in 1914 and organized in 1915,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/DAKs_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|title=Dakota Territory, South Dakota, and North Dakota: Individual County Chronologies|website=Dakota Territory Atlas of Historical County Boundaries|publisher=The [[Newberry Library]]|date=2006|access-date=March 29, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402202102/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/DAKs_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was formed from the original counties of Nowlin and most of Sterling, which had previously been absorbed by [[Stanley County, South Dakota|Stanley County]]. It is named for [[Haakon VII]], who became king of [[Norway]] in 1905, in order to attract Norwegian settlers to the county.<ref>{{cite web |last1=SDPB |title=How did Haakon County, South Dakota get its name? Temples of Justice |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kQAYKtphCY |website=Youtube |publisher=South Dakota Public Broadcasting |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref> It is the only county in South Dakota named for a non-American person and is one of only nine counties in South Dakota named for persons who did not live in South Dakota.<ref>[[Clay County, South Dakota|Clay]], [[Custer County, South Dakota|Custer]], [[Douglas County, South Dakota|Douglas]], [[Grant County, South Dakota|Grant]], [[Hamlin County, South Dakota|Hamlin]], [[Lincoln County, South Dakota|Lincoln]], [[McPherson County, South Dakota|McPherson]], and [[Meade County, South Dakota|Meade]] are the other eight.</ref> Most of South Dakota's counties are named for early South Dakota officials or legislators, or for physical features ([[Fall River County, South Dakota|Fall River]] and [[Lake County, South Dakota|Lake]]), or are derived from Native American words ([[Minnehaha County, South Dakota|Minnehaha]] and [[Yankton County, South Dakota|Yankton]]), or from counties in other states ([[Jones County, South Dakota|Jones]] and [[Walworth County, South Dakota|Walworth]]), with one ([[Aurora County, South Dakota|Aurora]]) named for a Roman goddess, one for an animal ([[Buffalo County, South Dakota|Buffalo]]), and one ([[Union County, South Dakota|Union]]) for a concept.