Stephan 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 ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 counte ...

(CDP) in Hyde 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. Stephan has been assigned the ZIP code of 57346. The population of the CDP was 68 at the 2020 census. Some say Stephan was named in honor of the martyred Saint Stephan, while others believe the community has the name of Monsignor J. A. Stephan, a local missionary. The tribal K-12 school Crow Creek Tribal School, affiliated with the

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(BIE), is in the settlement.

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Unincorporated communities in Hyde County, South Dakota Unincorporated communities in South Dakota {{SouthDakota-geo-stub