This is a list of places incorporated in the U.S. state of South Dakota as cities. Municipalities in South Dakota can also be incorporated as towns. South Dakota has one incorporated village, Wentworth, Lake County. [1] There are 310 municipalities.
County seat
State capital and county seat
2023 rank | City | 2023 estimate [2] | 2020 Census [3] | Change | County |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sioux Falls † | 206,410 | 192,517 | +7.22% | Minnehaha Lincoln |
2 | Rapid City † | 79,404 | 74,703 | +6.29% | Pennington |
3 | Aberdeen † | 28,110 | 28,495 | −1.35% | Brown |
4 | Brookings † | 24,312 | 23,377 | +4.00% | Brookings |
5 | Watertown † | 23,230 | 22,655 | +2.54% | Codington |
6 | Yankton † | 15,630 | 15,411 | +1.42% | Yankton |
7 | Mitchell † | 15,621 | 15,660 | −0.25% | Davison |
8 | Huron † | 14,618 | 14,263 | +2.49% | Beadle |
9 | Pierre ‡ | 13,880 | 14,091 | −1.50% | Hughes |
10 | Box Elder | 13,868 | 11,746 | +18.07% | Pennington Meade |
11 | Spearfish | 13,282 | 12,193 | +8.93% | Lawrence |
12 | Vermillion † | 12,011 | 11,695 | +2.70% | Clay |
13 | Brandon | 10,958 | 11,048 | −0.81% | Minnehaha |
14 | Harrisburg | 9,435 | 6,732 | +40.15% | Lincoln |
15 | Tea | 7,381 | 5,598 | +31.85% | Lincoln |
16 | Sturgis † | 7,067 | 7,020 | +0.67% | Meade |
17 | Madison † | 6,091 | 6,191 | −1.62% | Lake |
18 | Belle Fourche † | 5,873 | 5,617 | +4.56% | Butte |
19 | Dell Rapids | 3,868 | 3,996 | −3.20% | Minnehaha |
20 | Hartford | 3,614 | 3,354 | +7.75% | Minnehaha |
21 | Hot Springs † | 3,609 | 3,395 | +6.30% | Fall River [4] |
22 | Milbank † | 3,512 | 3,544 | −0.90% | Grant |
23 | Mobridge | 3,224 | 3,261 | −1.13% | Walworth |
24 | North Sioux City | 3,048 | 3,042 | +0.20% | Union |
25 | Lead | 3,035 | 2,982 | +1.78% | Lawrence |
26 | Canton † | 3,001 | 3,066 | −2.12% | Lincoln |
27 | Summerset | 3,000 | 2,972 | +0.94% | Meade |
28 | Winner † | 2,912 | 2,921 | −0.31% | Tripp [5] |
29 | Lennox | 2,493 | 2,423 | +2.89% | Lincoln |
30 | Chamberlain † | 2,491 | 2,473 | +0.73% | Brule |
31 | Sisseton † | 2,418 | 2,479 | −2.46% | Roberts |
32 | Flandreau † | 2,358 | 2,372 | −0.59% | Moody |
33 | Volga | 2,340 | 2,113 | +10.74% | Brookings |
34 | Fort Pierre † | 2,175 | 2,115 | +2.84% | Stanley |
35 | Redfield † | 2,131 | 2,214 | −3.75% | Spink |
36 | Beresford | 2,103 | 2,180 | −3.53% | Union Lincoln |
37 | Elk Point † | 2,075 | 2,149 | −3.44% | Union |
38 | Springfield | 1,913 | 1,914 | −0.05% | Bon Homme |
39 | Custer † | 1,844 | 1,919 | −3.91% | Custer |
40 | Webster † | 1,687 | 1,728 | −2.37% | Day |
41 | Parkston | 1,544 | 1,567 | −1.47% | Hutchinson |
42 | Wagner | 1,426 | 1,490 | −4.30% | Charles Mix |
43 | Crooks | 1,371 | 1,362 | +0.66% | Minnehaha |
44 | Groton | 1,355 | 1,380 | −1.81% | Brown |
45 | Deadwood † | 1,343 | 1,156 | +16.18% | Lawrence |
46 | Salem † | 1,335 | 1,325 | +0.75% | McCook |
47 | Miller † | 1,326 | 1,349 | −1.70% | Hand |
48 | Baltic | 1,325 | 1,246 | +6.34% | Minnehaha |
49 | Freeman | 1,311 | 1,329 | −1.35% | Hutchinson |
50 | Parker † | 1,271 | 1,194 | +6.45% | Turner |
51 | Platte | 1,242 | 1,296 | −4.17% | Charles Mix |
52 | Eagle Butte | 1,228 | 1,258 | −2.38% | Dewey Ziebach |
53 | Gregory | 1,222 | 1,221 | +0.08% | Gregory |
54 | Clear Lake † | 1,216 | 1,218 | −0.16% | Deuel |
55 | Britton † | 1,209 | 1,215 | −0.49% | Marshall |
56 | Garretson | 1,175 | 1,228 | −4.32% | Minnehaha |
57 | Clark † | 1,159 | 1,148 | +0.96% | Clark |
58 | Lemmon | 1,156 | 1,160 | −0.34% | Perkins |
59 | Aurora | 1,148 | 1,047 | +9.65% | Brookings |
60 | Mission | 1,142 | 1,156 | −1.21% | Todd |
61 | Tyndall † | 1,075 | 1,057 | +1.70% | Bon Homme |
62 | Gettysburg † | 1,072 | 1,104 | −2.90% | Potter |
63 | De Smet † | 1,046 | 1,056 | −0.95% | Kingsbury |
64 | Piedmont | 1,015 | 971 | +4.53% | Meade |
65 | Centerville | 957 | 918 | +4.25% | Turner |
66 | Hill City | 953 | 872 | +9.29% | Pennington |
67 | Ipswich † | 947 | 928 | +2.05% | Edmunds |
68 | Whitewood | 943 | 879 | +7.28% | Lawrence |
69 | Arlington | 928 | 915 | +1.42% | Kingsbury Brookings |
70 | Martin † | 926 | 938 | −1.28% | Bennett |
71 | Worthing | 918 | 927 | −0.97% | Lincoln |
72 | Valley Springs | 878 | 885 | −0.79% | Minnehaha |
73 | Marion | 874 | 849 | +2.94% | Turner |
74 | Viborg | 834 | 814 | +2.46% | Turner |
75 | Howard † | 833 | 848 | −1.77% | Miner |
76 | Faulkton † | 823 | 826 | −0.36% | Faulk |
77 | Scotland | 784 | 785 | −0.13% | Bon Homme |
78 | Plankinton † | 782 | 781 | +0.13% | Aurora |
79 | Alcester | 781 | 820 | −4.76% | Union |
80 | Elkton | 776 | 755 | +2.78% | Brookings |
81 | Eureka | 773 | 813 | −4.92% | McPherson |
82 | Estelline | 768 | 749 | +2.54% | Hamlin |
83 | Edgemont | 767 | 725 | +5.79% | Fall River |
84 | Wessington Springs † | 761 | 771 | −1.30% | Jerauld |
85 | Philip † | 758 | 759 | −0.13% | Haakon |
86 | Castlewood | 706 | 698 | +1.15% | Hamlin |
87 | Armour † | 703 | 698 | +0.72% | Douglas |
88 | Colton | 700 | 738 | −5.15% | Minnehaha |
89 | Wall | 688 | 699 | −1.57% | Pennington |
90 | Lake Andes † | 685 | 710 | −3.52% | Charles Mix |
91 | Onida † | 658 | 666 | −1.20% | Sully |
92-(T) | Alexandria † | 654 | 649 | +0.77% | Hanson |
92-(T) | Colman | 654 | 634 | +3.15% | Moody |
94 | Woonsocket † | 648 | 631 | +2.69% | Sanborn |
95 | Canistota | 642 | 631 | +1.74% | McCook |
96 | Highmore † | 636 | 682 | −6.74% | Hyde |
97 | Menno | 619 | 614 | +0.81% | Hutchinson |
98 | Lake Preston | 613 | 589 | +4.07% | Kingsbury |
99 | New Underwood | 610 | 590 | +3.39% | Pennington |
100 | Selby † | 607 | 610 | −0.49% | Walworth |
101 | Lake Norden | 598 | 554 | +7.94% | Hamlin |
102 | Newell | 597 | 584 | +2.23% | Butte |
103 | Avon | 595 | 586 | +1.54% | Bon Homme |
104 | Kimball | 581 | 572 | +1.57% | Brule |
105 | Humboldt | 579 | 579 | 0.00% | Minnehaha |
106 | Burke † | 577 | 575 | +0.35% | Gregory |
107 | Tripp | 564 | 575 | −1.91% | Hutchinson |
108 | Corsica | 556 | 561 | −0.89% | Douglas |
109 | McLaughlin | 549 | 569 | −3.51% | Corson |
110 | White | 542 | 537 | +0.93% | Brookings |
111 | Kadoka † | 539 | 543 | −0.74% | Jackson |
112 | White River † | 519 | 533 | −2.63% | Mellette |
113 | Timber Lake † | 516 | 509 | +1.38% | Dewey |
114 | Bridgewater | 507 | 511 | −0.78% | McCook |
115 | Emery | 478 | 484 | −1.24% | Hanson |
116-(T) | Bowdle | 476 | 470 | +1.28% | Edmunds |
116-(T) | Dupree † | 476 | 494 | −3.64% | Ziebach |
118 | Waubay | 475 | 473 | +0.42% | Day |
119 | Bryant | 470 | 471 | −0.21% | Hamlin |
120 | St. Francis | 467 | 469 | −0.43% | Todd |
121 | Montrose | 466 | 468 | −0.43% | McCook |
122 | Wolsey | 465 | 459 | +1.31% | Beadle |
123 | Presho | 464 | 472 | −1.69% | Lyman |
124 | Warner | 463 | 485 | −4.54% | Brown |
125 | Mount Vernon | 459 | 461 | −0.43% | Davison |
126-(T) | Jefferson | 448 | 475 | −5.68% | Union |
126-(T) | Murdo † | 448 | 475 | −5.68% | Jones |
128 | Irene | 435 | 422 | +3.08% | Clay Turner Yankton |
129 | Wilmot | 424 | 432 | −1.85% | Roberts |
130 | Leola † | 416 | 434 | −4.15% | McPherson |
131 | Hayti † | 414 | 393 | +5.34% | Hamlin |
132 | Big Stone City | 410 | 412 | −0.49% | Grant |
133 | White Lake | 406 | 394 | +3.05% | Aurora |
134 | Herreid | 405 | 416 | −2.64% | Campbell |
135 | Tabor | 403 | 407 | −0.98% | Bon Homme |
136 | Oacoma | 390 | 386 | +1.04% | Lyman |
137 | Hurley | 385 | 379 | +1.58% | Turner |
138 | Gayville | 378 | 382 | −1.05% | Yankton |
139 | Hermosa | 373 | 382 | −2.36% | Custer |
140 | Rosholt | 368 | 379 | −2.90% | Roberts |
141 | Hoven | 366 | 379 | −3.43% | Potter |
142 | Ethan | 361 | 365 | −1.10% | Davison |
143-(T) | Buffalo † | 356 | 346 | +2.89% | Harding |
143-(T) | Faith | 356 | 367 | −3.00% | Meade |
145 | Wakonda | 350 | 347 | +0.86% | Clay |
146 | Blunt | 338 | 342 | −1.17% | Hughes |
147 | Florence | 334 | 337 | −0.89% | Codington |
148 | Colome | 330 | 331 | −0.30% | Tripp |
149 | Hudson | 323 | 311 | +3.86% | Lincoln |
150 | Stickney | 318 | 321 | −0.93% | Aurora |
151 | Chancellor | 316 | 300 | +5.33% | Turner |
152 | Veblen | 314 | 317 | −0.95% | Marshall |
153 | Bison † | 304 | 302 | +0.66% | Perkins |
154 | Iroquois | 295 | 292 | +1.03% | Kingsbury Beadle |
155 | Kennebec † | 284 | 281 | +1.07% | Lyman |
156 | Bristol | 282 | 288 | −2.08% | Day |
157-(T) | Langford | 281 | 283 | −0.71% | Marshall |
157-(T) | Roscoe | 281 | 269 | +4.46% | Edmunds |
159 | Summit | 277 | 288 | −3.82% | Roberts |
160 | Henry | 263 | 256 | +2.73% | Codington |
161 | Willow Lake | 261 | 255 | +2.35% | Clark |
162 | Bonesteel | 257 | 258 | −0.39% | Gregory |
163 | Egan | 246 | 241 | +2.07% | Moody |
164 | Keystone | 241 | 240 | +0.42% | Pennington |
165-(T) | Gary | 238 | 240 | −0.83% | Deuel |
165-(T) | Pukwana | 238 | 233 | +2.15% | Brule |
167 | Trent | 235 | 206 | +14.08% | Moody |
168 | Pickstown | 228 | 230 | −0.87% | Charles Mix |
169 | New Effington | 226 | 234 | −3.42% | Roberts |
170 | Pollock | 222 | 224 | −0.89% | Campbell |
171 | Bruce | 215 | 210 | +2.38% | Brookings |
172 | Nisland | 213 | 206 | +3.40% | Butte |
173 | Alpena | 212 | 212 | 0.00% | Jerauld |
174 | Frederick | 206 | 215 | −4.19% | Brown |
175 | Tulare | 205 | 211 | −2.84% | Spink |
176 | Wessington | 202 | 197 | +2.54% | Beadle Hand |
177 | Toronto | 196 | 196 | 0.00% | Deuel |
178 | Mellette | 195 | 199 | −2.01% | Spink |
179-(T) | Doland | 189 | 199 | −5.03% | Spink |
179-(T) | Hecla | 189 | 193 | −2.07% | Brown |
179-(T) | South Shore | 189 | 189 | 0.00% | Codington |
182 | Mission Hill | 187 | 190 | −1.58% | Yankton |
183 | Roslyn | 181 | 181 | 0.00% | Day |
184 | Wentworth | 174 | 181 | −3.87% | Lake |
185 | Peever | 173 | 180 | −3.89% | Roberts |
186 | Kranzburg | 165 | 163 | +1.23% | Codington |
187 | Hosmer | 164 | 164 | 0.00% | Edmunds |
188-(T) | Ramona | 163 | 159 | +2.52% | Lake |
188-(T) | St. Lawrence | 163 | 163 | 0.00% | Hand |
190 | Monroe | 160 | 159 | +0.63% | Turner |
191 | Letcher | 159 | 159 | 0.00% | Sanborn |
192 | Volin | 157 | 158 | −0.63% | Yankton |
193 | Columbia | 156 | 160 | −2.50% | Brown |
194-(T) | Delmont | 153 | 153 | 0.00% | Douglas |
194-(T) | Dimock | 153 | 137 | +11.68% | Hutchinson |
196 | Geddes | 152 | 156 | −2.56% | Charles Mix |
197-(T) | Buffalo Gap | 149 | 131 | +13.74% | Custer |
197-(T) | Goodwin | 149 | 147 | +1.36% | Deuel |
199 | Isabel | 145 | 145 | 0.00% | Dewey |
200 | Conde | 140 | 142 | −1.41% | Spink |
201 | Spencer | 137 | 136 | +0.74% | McCook |
202 | Northville | 136 | 139 | −2.16% | Spink |
203 | Artesian | 135 | 129 | +4.65% | Sanborn |
204 | Badger | 134 | 129 | +3.88% | Kingsbury |
205 | Cavour | 133 | 128 | +3.91% | Beadle |
206 | Astoria | 132 | 132 | 0.00% | Deuel |
207 | Frankfort | 130 | 134 | −2.99% | Spink |
208-(T) | Carthage | 127 | 127 | 0.00% | Miner |
208-(T) | Reliance | 127 | 128 | −0.78% | Lyman |
210 | Oelrichs | 126 | 117 | +7.69% | Fall River |
211 | Pierpont | 124 | 129 | −3.88% | Day |
212 | Java | 121 | 121 | 0.00% | Walworth |
213 | Oldham | 119 | 121 | −1.65% | Kingsbury |
214 | Brandt | 118 | 114 | +3.51% | Deuel |
215 | Lesterville | 115 | 115 | 0.00% | Yankton |
216-(T) | Pringle | 111 | 109 | +1.83% | Custer |
216-(T) | Yale | 111 | 112 | −0.89% | Beadle |
218 | McIntosh † | 110 | 111 | −0.90% | Corson |
219-(T) | Hitchcock | 109 | 112 | −2.68% | Beadle |
219-(T) | Midland | 109 | 112 | −2.68% | Haakon |
221 | Glenham | 108 | 112 | −3.57% | Walworth |
222-(T) | Ashton | 106 | 108 | −1.85% | Spink |
222-(T) | Claremont | 106 | 108 | −1.85% | Brown |
222-(T) | Stockholm | 106 | 102 | +3.92% | Grant |
225 | Central City | 104 | 93 | +11.83% | Lawrence |
226 | Cresbard | 103 | 96 | +7.29% | Faulk |
227 | Hazel | 102 | 102 | 0.00% | Hamlin |
228-(T) | Fairfax | 101 | 96 | +5.21% | Gregory |
228-(T) | Sinai | 101 | 99 | +2.02% | Brookings |
230 | Harrold | 100 | 101 | −0.99% | Hughes |
231 | Revillo | 98 | 99 | −1.01% | Grant |
232 | Wallace | 94 | 91 | +3.30% | Codington |
233-(T) | Canova | 91 | 89 | +2.25% | Miner |
233-(T) | Eden | 91 | 94 | −3.19% | Marshall |
235-(T) | Fulton | 86 | 87 | −1.15% | Hanson |
235-(T) | Westport | 86 | 88 | −2.27% | Brown |
237 | Dallas | 85 | 89 | −4.49% | Gregory |
238 | Brentford | 84 | 88 | −4.55% | Spink |
239 | Claire City | 81 | 82 | −1.22% | Roberts |
240-(T) | Akaska | 80 | 77 | +3.90% | Walworth |
240-(T) | Fruitdale | 80 | 73 | +9.59% | Butte |
242 | Herrick | 76 | 74 | +2.70% | Gregory |
243 | Sherman | 75 | 81 | −7.41% | Minnehaha |
244-(T) | Batesland | 73 | 100 | −27.00% | Oglala Lakota |
244-(T) | Bushnell | 73 | 71 | +2.82% | Brookings |
246-(T) | Agar | 71 | 68 | +4.41% | Sully |
246-(T) | Utica | 71 | 70 | +1.43% | Yankton |
248-(T) | La Bolt | 69 | 66 | +4.55% | Grant |
248-(T) | Ravinia | 69 | 71 | −2.82% | Charles Mix |
250-(T) | Andover | 68 | 66 | +3.03% | Day |
250-(T) | Dante | 68 | 75 | −9.33% | Charles Mix |
252-(T) | Corona | 67 | 69 | −2.90% | Roberts |
252-(T) | Strandburg | 67 | 63 | +6.35% | Grant |
254 | Interior | 66 | 65 | +1.54% | Jackson |
255-(T) | Bradley | 65 | 65 | 0.00% | Clark |
255-(T) | Mound City † | 65 | 69 | −5.80% | Campbell |
257-(T) | Camp Crook | 64 | 60 | +6.67% | Harding |
257-(T) | Fairburn | 64 | 60 | +6.67% | Custer |
257-(T) | Olivet † | 64 | 64 | 0.00% | Hutchinson |
257-(T) | Quinn | 64 | 63 | +1.59% | Pennington |
261 | Fairview | 63 | 61 | +3.28% | Lincoln |
262 | Wasta | 62 | 65 | −4.62% | Pennington |
263-(T) | Raymond | 58 | 53 | +9.43% | Clark |
263-(T) | Stratford | 58 | 57 | +1.75% | Brown |
265-(T) | Brant Lake | 56 | 56 | 0.00% | Hand |
265-(T) | Davis | 56 | 54 | +3.70% | Turner |
265-(T) | Ree Heights | 56 | 59 | −5.08% | Hand |
268-(T) | New Witten | 54 | 54 | 0.00% | Tripp |
268-(T) | Turton | 54 | 55 | −1.82% | Spink |
268-(T) | Vienna | 54 | 49 | +10.20% | Clark |
271 | Orient | 52 | 51 | +1.96% | Faulk |
272 | Lane | 49 | 47 | +4.26% | Jerauld |
273 | Ortley | 48 | 50 | −4.00% | Roberts |
274 | Nunda | 47 | 46 | +2.17% | Lake |
275 | Grenville | 46 | 48 | −4.17% | Day |
276-(T) | Morristown | 45 | 47 | −4.26% | Corson |
276-(T) | Twin Brooks | 45 | 47 | −4.26% | Grant |
278-(T) | Lake City | 43 | 45 | −4.44% | Marshall |
278-(T) | Ward | 43 | 34 | +26.47% | Moody |
280-(T) | Belvidere | 42 | 46 | −8.70% | Jackson |
280-(T) | Draper | 42 | 46 | −8.70% | Jones |
282-(T) | Naples | 41 | 38 | +7.89% | Clark |
282-(T) | Wood | 41 | 41 | 0.00% | Mellette |
284 | Erwin | 40 | 40 | 0.00% | Kingsbury |
285 | Tolstoy | 37 | 35 | +5.71% | Potter |
286-(T) | Dolton | 36 | 34 | +5.88% | Turner |
286-(T) | Garden City | 36 | 33 | +9.09% | Clark |
288 | Lebanon | 32 | 33 | −3.03% | Potter |
289 | Altamont | 31 | 32 | −3.12% | Deuel |
290-(T) | Broadland | 27 | 27 | 0.00% | Beadle |
290-(T) | Long Lake | 27 | 27 | 0.00% | McPherson |
292 | Virgil | 26 | 16 | +62.50% | Beadle |
293 | Vilas | 25 | 29 | −13.79% | Miner |
294 | Seneca | 23 | 22 | +4.55% | Faulk |
295 | Rockham | 21 | 22 | −4.55% | Faulk |
296 | Marvin | 20 | 19 | +5.26% | Grant |
297 | Chelsea | 19 | 19 | 0.00% | Faulk |
298 | Hetland | 18 | 20 | −10.00% | Kingsbury |
299 | Farmer | 16 | 15 | +6.67% | Hanson |
300 | Onaka | 15 | 13 | +15.38% | Faulk |
301 | Wetonka | 13 | 16 | −18.75% | McPherson |
302-(T) | Bancroft | 11 | 13 | −15.38% | Kingsbury |
302-(T) | Cottonwood | 11 | 12 | −8.33% | Jackson |
304 | Albee | 9 | 7 | +28.57% | Grant |
305 | Artas | 8 | 7 | +14.29% | Campbell |
306-(T) | Verdon | 7 | 3 | +133.33% | Brown |
306-(T) | White Rock | 7 | 6 | +16.67% | Roberts |
308 | Butler | 6 | 4 | +50.00% | Day |
309 | Lowry | 5 | 10 | −50.00% | Walworth |
310 | Hillsview | 0 | 2 | −100.00% | McPherson |
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