List of towns in South Dakota, arranged in alphabetical order. This is a list of places
incorporated in South Dakota as
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
s, regardless of size. Municipalities in South Dakota can also be incorporated as
cities
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
. South Dakota also has one incorporated
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
,
Wentworth Wentworth may refer to:
People
* Wentworth (surname)
* Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth (1873–1957), Lady Wentworth, notable Arabian horse breeder
* S. Wentworth Horton (1885–1960), New York state senator
* Wentworth Miller (born 1 ...
.
Towns in South Dakota have small populations, ranging from 3 up to 766 as of the 2010 Census. Cities are usually larger, but many places incorporated as cities also fall within this size range.
''See:
Howard South Dakota,
List of townships in South Dakota.''
Towns
Seven towns are
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. The equivalent term shire town is used in the US st ...
s, and are designated with the † symbol and a green background in the table below.
References
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Towns and villages
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