Rumford is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Fall River County,

South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state, state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota people, Dakota Sioux ...

, United States. It is located on South Dakota Highway 471, southeast of Edgemont. Rumford is not tracked by the Census Bureau and shares a ZIP code (57735) with Edgemont and other surrounding towns and rural areas. Rumford was founded in 1889 when

Burlington Northern The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States–based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1995. Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroad ...

extended the railroad line and built a station at this location. The railroad company changed the name from Siding No. 5 to Rumford in 1894.

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