BlockSouth Dakota
The archive covers 66 counties in South Dakota so far. Everything below is a work of the United States government or a book published before 1929, and every page links to the record it came from.
What the archive holds in South Dakota
| Records | Count | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Settlements | 1,014 | Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records, each with the survey sheets that cover it. |
| Topographic sheets | 1,429 | Distinct United States Geological Survey sheets covering those settlements. |
| Township histories | 11 | Complete chapters from the county histories, reproduced unedited. |
| Listed properties | 1,172 | On the National Register of Historic Places. |
| Words of narrative | 167,665 | Public-domain county history, published complete. |
Counties
66 of 66All 66 counties in South Dakota. Every county below has published records and opens its own page.
| Map | County | Settlements | Listed | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora County | 5 | 9 | not yet read | |
| Beadle County | 16 | 18 | not yet read | |
| Bennett County | 12 | 1 | not yet read | |
| Bon Homme County | 10 | 40 | not yet read | |
| Brookings County | 18 | 44 | not yet read | |
| Brown County | 40 | 42 | not yet read | |
| Brule County | 11 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Buffalo County | 5 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Butte County | 11 | 39 | not yet read | |
| Campbell County | 4 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Charles Mix County | 16 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Clark County | 24 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Clay County | 21 | 44 | not yet read | |
| Codington County | 14 | 43 | not yet read | |
| Corson County | 18 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Custer County | 21 | 35 | not yet read | |
| Davison County | 7 | 25 | not yet read | |
| Day County | 12 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Deuel County | 11 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Dewey County | 20 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Douglas County | 10 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Edmunds County | 13 | 11 | not yet read | |
| Fall River County | 19 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Faulk County | 18 | 10 | 1,428 words | |
| Grant County | 10 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Gregory County | 11 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Haakon County | 17 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Hamlin County | 13 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Hand County | 11 | 6 | not yet read | |
| Hanson County | 12 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Harding County | 10 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Hughes County | 9 | 36 | not yet read | |
| Hutchinson County | 15 | 17 | not yet read | |
| Hyde County | 5 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Jackson County | 14 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Jerauld County | 5 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Jones County | 6 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Kingsbury County | 14 | 23 | not yet read | |
| Lake County | 19 | 16 | not yet read | |
| Lawrence County | 53 | 57 | not yet read | |
| Lincoln County | 11 | 27 | not yet read | |
| Lyman County | 9 | 2 | not yet read | |
| McCook County | 10 | 10 | not yet read | |
| McPherson County | 10 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Marshall County | 15 | 6 | not yet read | |
| Meade County | 37 | 27 | not yet read | |
| Mellette County | 7 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Miner County | 9 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Minnehaha County | 51 | 107 | 166,237 words | |
| Moody County | 8 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Oglala Lakota County | 14 | 0 | not yet read | |
| Pennington County | 66 | 59 | not yet read | |
| Perkins County | 18 | 19 | not yet read | |
| Potter County | 6 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Roberts County | 28 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Sanborn County | 8 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Spink County | 23 | 22 | not yet read | |
| Stanley County | 10 | 8 | not yet read | |
| Sully County | 4 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Todd County | 15 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Tripp County | 11 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Turner County | 13 | 29 | not yet read | |
| Union County | 16 | 16 | not yet read | |
| Walworth County | 7 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Yankton County | 18 | 78 | not yet read | |
| Ziebach County | 10 | 1 | not yet read |
Settlements in South Dakota
1,014 settlementsNamed places, each with its own page of maps and records. They are listed on the page for the county that holds them, because that is where the rest of a town's record lives too. A place with no page is a place the archive has not reached yet, not a place that does not exist.
Every county in South Dakota, each listing its own settlements.
Provenance
- Boundaries. Census Bureau TIGERweb. A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Place names. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey.
- Counts. Computed from the records this site publishes, not quoted from anywhere. They change when the archive grows.