State atlas · filed under SD
Ghost Towns of South Dakota
833 sites surveyed across South Dakota. Full records are being verified and charted — the survey marks below are where they'll appear.
✕Charted — click for the recordSurveyed — records pending
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 833 vanished or historical sites in South Dakota — ghost towns, mining camps, townsites, and railroad stops. We chart them a few at a time, as the records can be verified. Every mark on this map is a place that once had a name.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in South Dakota — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.
AvanceMeade Co.BardHanson Co.Bluff CenterClay Co.BramhallHyde Co.BrownsvilleLawrence Co.BunkerStanley Co.Canyon CityPennington Co.CarbonateLawrence Co.CarltonClark Co.CartervilleLawrence Co.CartesvilleLawrence Co.CarthageLawrence Co.CarwyeMeade Co.CastletonPennington Co.Centennial CityLawrence Co.ChanningLawrence Co.Clara Belle CampPennington Co.Cold Spring IICuster Co.Copper CampPennington Co.DacyLawrence Co.DanobyCuster Co.Diamond CityLawrence Co.Douglas CityDouglas Co.DowlingHaakon Co.ElizabethtownLawrence Co.EllingsonPerkins Co.FairviewKingsbury Co.FairviewPennington Co.Flatiron ILawrence Co.FlorenceHand Co.FlorencePennington Co.FrenchtownPennington Co.FrisbyClark Co.GlenwoodClay Co.GoiensMeade Co.GrandviewDouglas Co.GregoryLawrence Co.GrosClark Co.HaywardPennington Co.IvanhoeCuster Co.JeffreyCorson Co.JulianClark Co.KeeftonClark Co.KomstadClay Co.LaCreekBennett Co.Lancaster CityLawrence Co.LilyClark Co.MarshalltownClay Co.MaywoodHanson Co.MertonClark Co.OrlandLake Co.PactolaPennington Co.PhebaStanley Co.PitrodieClark Co.Prairie QueenLake Co.Ragged TopLawrence Co.RiversideClay Co.RunkelMeade Co.SaybrookClay Co.ShawClay Co.SheridanPennington Co.SnomaButte Co.South Sioux FallsMinnehaha Co.Star CornerClay Co.SuccessClark Co.SweetlandHand Co.VirginiaLawrence Co.VodnanyBon Homme Co.WheelerCharles Mix Co.