Geddes is a city in central Charles Mix County, South Dakota, United States.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.61 square miles (1.58 km2), all land.

[9] It includes the majority of the historic small town of Geddes, which "stopped growing, for the most part, by 1920," due to factors including the railroad not coming through, and its failure to win the county seat of Charles Mix County.

Geddes had tried to wrest the county seat from Wheeler in 1900, 1904, and 1908,[10] and the seat eventually went to Lake Andes, South Dakota (about 15 miles (24 km) away), where Charles Mix County Courthouse was built in 1918.

The oldest building in the district is the Papineau Trading Post, built in 1857 of squared plains cottonwood logs; it is actually probably the oldest building in the entire state of South Dakota.

It was moved from a few miles away to an open lot in what is now the southern edge of the historic district.

The racial makeup of the city was 98.02% White, 0.79% Native American, 0.40% Asian, 0.79% from other races.

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