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  • Towns are listed in alphabetical order. Information in the index includes: county name, post office founding date, incorporation or other founding date, and previous town names. Only current towns are included, No ghost towns. 

  • The post-office date is when a post-office was officially established by the federal government in a town. 

  • The "Other" category includes a towns incorporation, establishment, founding, platting, named and/or settling date. 

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Town County Post-Office Date Other Dates Also Known As
Aberdeen Brown 2/17/1881 5/8/1882 Incorporated  
Agar Sully 9/20/1910 1/18/1926 Incorporated Milford
Akaska Walworth 7/1/1907 1907 Incorporated  
Albee Grant 5/29/1888 6/30/1902 Incorporated  
Alcester Union 10/17/1883 10/3/1893 Incorporated Linia, Irene
Alexandria Hanson 3/3/1880 3/13/1885 Incorporated Clarksville, Alexander
Allen Bennett 9/21/1897
 
 
Alpena Jerauld 11/13/1883 1883 Platted
 
Altamont Deuel 9/12/1879 6/1/1903 Incorporated
 
Amherst Marshall 11/28/1887
 
 
Andover Day 10/6/1881 7/8/1881 Incorporated
 
Ardmore Fall River 3/18/1891 1889 Founded
 
Arlington Kingsbury 9/17/1885 1880 Founded Nordland, Denver
Armour Douglas 8/5/1886 4/19/1904 Incorporated
 
Artas Campbell 11/16/1901 11/5/1951 Incorporated
 
Artesian Sanborn 12/6/1889 1/13/1914 Incorporated Denton, Dianna, Artesian City
Ashton Spink 7/10/1879 5/31/1883 Incorporated
 
Astoria Deuel 12/24/1900 4/17/1917 Incorporated
 
Athol Spink 9/28/1881
 
 
Aurora Brookings 1/7/1880 1880 Founded
 
Avon Bon Homme 5/9/1881 1879 Established
 

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Town County Post-Office Date Other Dates Also Known As
Badger Kingsbury 4/6/1908 1906 Platted  
Baltic Minnehaha 3/23/1889 7/16/1907 Incorporated St Olaf, Keyes
Bancroft Kingsbury 1/14/1889 N/A  
Barnard Brown 7/30/1910
 		  
Batesland Shannon 6/14/1923
 		  
Bath Brown 5/2/1881
 
 
Belle Fourche Butte 6/22/1891 4/20/1903 Incorporated
 
Belvidere Jackson 7/9/1906 1907 Founded
 
Bemis Deuel 1/19/1905
 		 Palmer
Beresford Union 7/13/1883 7/12/1884 Incorporated Paris
Big Stone City Grant 5/28/1910 3/13/1885 Incorporated Inkpa City, Bigstone
Bijou Hills Brule 8/11/1877
 
 
Bison Perkins 10/12/1907
 
 
Black Hawk Meade 1/26/1887
 		 Blackhawk (one word)
Blunt Hughes 4/12/1882 1882 Settled
 
Bonesteel Gregory 8/1/1892 1902 Founded Huston
Bonilla Beadle 11/5/1883
 
 
Bovee Charles Mix 2/25/1916
 
 
Bowdle Edmunds 7/24/1886 10/19/1911 Incorporated Kellie
Box Elder Pennington 6/22/1907 5/12/1965 Incorporated
 
Bradley Clark 12/13/1887 2/4/1902 Incorporated
 
Brandon Minnehaha 8/21/1878
 
 
Brandt Deuel 1/15/1887 12/23/1880 Incorporated
 
Brentford Spink 12/22/1906 10/6/1906 Incorporated
 
Bridgewater McCook 11/29/1880 6/24/1889 Incorporated Nation
Bristol Day 10/24/1881 4/1/1921 Incorporated
 
Britton Marshall 7/28/1884 12/24/1883 Incorporated
 
Broadland Beadle 4/21/1882 12/5/1911 Incorporated
 
Brookings Brookings 12/9/1879 3/9/1883 Incorporated Ada
Bruce Brookings 11/5/1883 8/12/1861 Incorporated Lee, Thoms
Bryant Hamlin 5/29/1888 4/11/1912 Incorporated Underwood
Buffalo Harding 2/9/1909 5/5/1949 Incorporated
 
Buffalo Gap Custer 7/9/1877
 
 
Buffalo Ridge Minnehaha 5/23/1977
 
 
Bullhead Corson 12/9/1905
 
 
Burbank Clay 6/28/1873
 		 Liberty
Burke Gregory 8/22/1904 1906 Incorporated
 
Bushnell Brookings 1/26/1885 5/14/1915 Incorporated Fountain
Butler Day 9/26/1887 12/11/1905 Incorporated
 

 

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Town County Post-Office Date Other Dates Also Known As
Camp Crook Harding 2/26/1885 1908 Incorporated  
Canistota McCook 10/22/1883 1883 Incorporated Canastota
Canova Miner 2/27/1884 1898 Incorporated Nelson
Canton Lincoln 5/14/1868 1/11/1881 Incorporated  
Caputa Pennington 12/6/1907
 
 
Carpenter Clark 4/20/1899
 
 
Carter Tripp 9/2/1909 4/4/1910 Incorporated
 
Carthage Miner 7/16/1883 7/25/1898 Incorporated Mable, Franklin
Castlewood Hamlin 9/27/1882 N/A Keator
Cavour Beadle 6/4/1880 1881 Incorporated
 
Centerville Turner 5/28/1872 12/6/1894 Incorporated Martin
Central City Lawrence 6/27/1877 1877 Founded
 
Chamberlain Brule 1/26/1881 1881 Founded
 
Chancellor Turner 6/18/1895 1895 Founded
 
Chelsea Faulk 12/22/1906 1906 Incorporated
 
Cherry Creek Ziebach 1/8/1904
 
 
Chester Lake 6/9/1886
 
 
Claire City Roberts 11/21/1913 1913 Incorporated Eddy
Claremont Brown 3/19/1887 4/20/1903 Incorporated
 
Clark Clark 3/8/1880 3/22/1886 Incorporated
 
Clear Lake Deuel 9/5/1881 1900 Incorporated Deuel Center
Colman Moody 9/8/1881 1880 Founded Sankey
Colome Tripp 2/5/1909 1910 Incorporated
 
Colton Minnehaha 4/16/1898 1904 Incorporated
 
Columbia Brown 2/12/1880 3/12/1885 Incorporated Richmond
Conde Spink 4/14/1892 7/3/1909 Incorporated Coral
Corona Roberts 3/19/1886 N/A Prior
Corsica Douglas 10/7/1905 1905 Incorporated
 
Corson Minnehaha 12/13/1892
 
 
Cottonwood Jackson 4/5/1907 1906 Incorporated Ingham
Cresbard Faulk 8/28/1883 1909 Incorporated
 
Crocker Clark 2/8/1907
 
 
Crooks Minnehaha 9/22/1904
 		 New Hope
Custer Custer 3/14/1877 1875 Founded Stonewall

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Town County Post-Office Date Other Dates Also Known As
Dallas Gregory 9/17/1904 1908 Incorporated
 
Dante Charles Mix 3/22/1910 5/21/1909 Incorporated Mayo
Davis Turner 11/23/1893 3/19/1896 Incorporated
 
De Smet Kingsbury 3/24/1880 1883 Incorporated Desmet (one word)
Deadwood Lawrence 3/14/1877 2/22/1881 Incorporated Miles City
Dell Rapids Minnehaha 2/13/1873 12/13/1888 Incorporated Dell, Dell City
Delmont Douglas 1/31/1887 5/19/1913 Incorporated
 
Dempster Hamlin 3/4/1884
 		 Estelline, Spaulding
Dimock Hutchinson 5/2/1911
 
 
Doland Spink 11/23/1882 8/4/1909 Incorporated
 
Dolton Turner 11/30/1895 9/11/1909 Incorporated
 
Draper Jones 7/6/1906 2/5/1910 Incorporated Mussman
Dupree Ziebach 8/4/1910 1911 Incorporated
 

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Town County Post-Office Date Other Dates Also Known As
Eagle Butte Dewey 8/22/1910 10/15/1911 Incorporated
 
East Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11/24/1888
 
 
Eden Marshall 10/27/1914 1916 Incorporated Luffman, Eden Park
Edgemont Fall River 11/1/1892 2/5/1895 Incorporated Dudley
Egan Moody 6/22/1880 3/24/1881Incorporated Roscoe
Elk Point Union 7/9/1860 1/10/1873 Incorporated Elkpoint (one word)
Elkton Brookings 7/21/1882 3/21/1908 Incorporated Ivanhoe
Ellis Minnehaha 4/27/1893
 		 Scoopville
Emery Hanson 9/5/1881 6/19/1917 Incorporated Farmington
Epiphany Hanson 7/29/1892
 		 Kroeger
Erwin Kingsbury 8/3/1882 1887 Platted
 
Estelline Hamlin 1/29/1883 5/19/1920 Incorporated Spaulding
Ethan Davison 3/15/1887 1883 Platted Rome
Eureka McPherson 11/22/1887 1/16/1892 Incorporated St Petersburg

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Town County Post-Office Date Other Dates Also Known As
Fairburn Custer 3/17/1887 1919 Incorporated French Creek
Fairfax Gregory 6/4/1892 1890 Settled
 
Fairview Lincoln 1/6/1869 1886 Founded
 
Faith Meade 6/10/1910 1912 Incorporated
 
Farmer Hanson