South Dakota Maps
This entry was originally written by Laura Hall Heuermann and Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FUGA, FASG for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
R.L. Polk and Company, Northwestern Gazetteer: Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana'Gazetteer and Business Directory (St. Paul: R.L. Polk, 1914) is of great benefit to the Dakota researcher. A good gazetteer containing much local history is Black Hills Ghost Towns by Watson Parker and H.K. Lambert (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1974).
A number of county atlases have been filmed and are available on interlibrary loan from the South Dakota State Historical Society. Those accessible to the researcher include the counties of Aurora (1909), Beadle (1906 and 1913), Bon Homme (1912), Brookings (1909), Brown (1905 and 1911), Brule (1911), Campbell (1911), Charles Mix (1906 and 1912), Clark (1929), Clay (1901 and 1924), Codington (1929), Davison (1901 and 1929), Day (1909 and 1929), Deuel (1909), Douglas (1901 and 1910), Edmunds (1905), Faulk (1910), Grant (1910 and 1929), Gregory (1912), Hand (1912), Hanson (1902 and 1910), Hughes (1916), Hutchinson (1910), Hyde (1911), Jerauld (1909), Kingsbury (1909 and 1929), Lake (1911), Lincoln (1910), Lyman (1911), Marshall (1910 and 1924), McCook (1911), McPherson (1911), Miner (1917), Minnehaha (1903), Moody (1909), Potter (1911), Roberts (1910), Sanborn (1912), Spink (1909), Sully (1916), Tripp (1915), Turner (1893 and 1902), Union (1924), Walworth (1941), and Yankton (1910).
Other atlases on microfilm include Andrea's 1884 Historical Atlas of Dakota and Peterson's 1904 Historical Atlas of South Dakota. The Sanborn fire insurance maps (see page 5) are located at the South Dakota State Historical Society as well.
