Upland Colony is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...
(CDP) and
Hutterite
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colony
in
Sanborn County,
South Dakota
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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the
2020 census.
[ The population of the CDP was 178 at the 2020 census.]
It is in the southeast part of the county, on high ground overlooking the James River
The James River is a river in the U.S. state of Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed April 1, 2011 to Chesapea ...
valley to the west. It is east of Letcher Letcher may refer to:
Places
* Letcher, South Dakota
*Letcher County, Kentucky
People
*Chris Letcher, South African singer/songwriter
* Cliff Letcher (born 1952), Australian professional tennis player
*John Letcher, American lawyer and politicia ...
and south-southwest of Artesian
Artesian may refer to:
* Someone from the County of Artois
* Artesian aquifer, a source of water
* Artesian Builds, a former computer building company
* Artesian, South Dakota, United States
* Great Artesian Basin, Australia
* The Artesian Hotel ...
.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Sanborn County, South Dakota
Census-designated places in South Dakota
Hutterite communities in the United States
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