{"id":7546,"date":"2023-09-03T08:05:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:25:03","slug":"minnehaha-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/minnehaha-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnehaha County, South Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnehaha County is a county in South Dakota, United States, on the state&rsquo;s eastern border with<br \/>\nMinnesota and Iowa, anchored by Sioux Falls. It had a population of 197,214 at the 2020 census, an<br \/>\nestimated 212,691 by 2025, and covers 806.85 square miles of land (2,089.72 km2) centred near<br \/>\n43&deg;40&prime;N 96&deg;48&prime;W.<\/p>\n<p>Sioux Falls is the county seat and by far the largest city; its postal code is 57104. The county<br \/>\nholds 8 cities, 2 incorporated towns and 15 smaller communities, and it runs on Central Time. Its<br \/>\nFIPS code is 46099.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Minnehaha County<\/h2>\n<p>Minnehaha County has 25 named places on record: 8 cities, 2 incorporated towns, 6 census-designated<br \/>\nplaces and 9 unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. CDP stands for<br \/>\ncensus designated place; Unincorp. covers crossroads and platted subdivisions with no formal<br \/>\nboundary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Sioux Falls<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>192,517<\/td>\n<td>57104<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brandon<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>11,048<\/td>\n<td>57005<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dell Rapids<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>3,996<\/td>\n<td>57022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hartford<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>3,354<\/td>\n<td>57033<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Crooks<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,362<\/td>\n<td>57020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Baltic<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,246<\/td>\n<td>57003<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Garretson<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,228<\/td>\n<td>57030<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Valley Springs<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>885<\/td>\n<td>57068<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Colton<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>738<\/td>\n<td>57018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Humboldt<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>579<\/td>\n<td>57035<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Anderson<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>388<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lyons<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>70<\/td>\n<td>57041<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rowena<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>68<\/td>\n<td>57056<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Renner Corner<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>57055<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Meadow View Addition<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pine Lakes Addition<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sherman<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>81<\/td>\n<td>57030<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Renner<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>57055<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Corson<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ellis<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Huntimer<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Midway<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Morefield<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Benclare<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Andy&#8217;s Acres<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Booge<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sherman and Garretson share ZIP 57030 &mdash; Sherman has no post office of its own and is served<br \/>\nfrom Garretson, three miles south. Renner and Renner Corner are two separate named places a few<br \/>\nmiles apart on Highway 115; Renner is the older rail-era community with a National Register<br \/>\nchurch, while Renner Corner is the newer subdivision at the Highway 115\/38 junction, and the two<br \/>\nare often conflated in older listings. Census figures for Renner itself are not broken out<br \/>\nseparately from the surrounding township, so its population is not shown here.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>57104 &mdash; Sioux Falls (central, and the city&#8217;s primary ZIP)<\/li>\n<li>57101, 57103, 57105&ndash;57110, 57117&ndash;57118, 57186, 57188&ndash;57189, 57192&ndash;57193, 57197&ndash;57198 &mdash; the rest of Sioux Falls, split by quadrant and by PO box ranges<\/li>\n<li>57005 &mdash; Brandon<\/li>\n<li>57022 &mdash; Dell Rapids<\/li>\n<li>57033 &mdash; Hartford<\/li>\n<li>57020 &mdash; Crooks<\/li>\n<li>57003 &mdash; Baltic<\/li>\n<li>57030 &mdash; Garretson (also serves Sherman)<\/li>\n<li>57068 &mdash; Valley Springs<\/li>\n<li>57018 &mdash; Colton<\/li>\n<li>57035 &mdash; Humboldt<\/li>\n<li>57041 &mdash; Lyons<\/li>\n<li>57056 &mdash; Rowena<\/li>\n<li>57055 &mdash; Renner and Renner Corner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anderson, Meadow View Addition, Pine Lakes Addition, Corson, Ellis, Huntimer, Midway, Morefield,<br \/>\nBenclare, Andy&#8217;s Acres and Booge have no ZIP of their own; mail there is delivered under the<br \/>\nnearest incorporated city&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Minnehaha County sits on South Dakota&#8217;s eastern edge, a landscape of rolling glacial till and<br \/>\nfarmland dotted with small lakes. Of its 813.86 square miles, 806.85 are land and 7.01 are water,<br \/>\nabout 0.9 percent. The Big Sioux River flows south-southeast through the east-central part of the<br \/>\ncounty, cutting the Sioux Falls quartzite outcrop that gave Sioux Falls its name and its downtown<br \/>\nfalls park. Split Rock Creek, a Big Sioux tributary, runs through Garretson and the Palisades area<br \/>\nin the county&#8217;s northeast corner.<\/p>\n<p>Moody County lies to the north, Lake and McCook counties to the west, Turner and Lincoln counties<br \/>\nto the south, and Minnesota and Iowa border the county directly to the east and southeast. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/moody-county\/\">Moody County<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/mccook-county\/\">McCook County<\/a> both have live pages on this<br \/>\nsite; Lake County and Turner County do not &mdash; the same-named posts on townsvillages.com<br \/>\nbelong to Lake County, California and Turner County, Georgia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/lincoln-county-south-dakota\/\">Lincoln County<\/a>, immediately<br \/>\nsouth, holds much of Sioux Falls&#8217;s fastest-growing suburbs.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Minnehaha County had a population of 197,214 at the 2020 census, South Dakota&#8217;s most populous<br \/>\ncounty by a wide margin, and the latest estimate puts it near 203,289 residents. Sioux Falls and<br \/>\nBrandon are by far the two largest communities, together holding more than 90 percent of the<br \/>\ncounty&#8217;s population. Median household income runs $76,880, slightly above South Dakota&#8217;s<br \/>\nstatewide figure of $71,810. Population density works out to roughly 252 people per square mile<br \/>\nof land, driven almost entirely by Sioux Falls&#8217;s urban core.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Health care and social assistance employs the most workers in the county, about 19,174 people,<br \/>\nfollowed by retail trade at 13,956 and manufacturing at 12,283. Sanford Health and Avera Health,<br \/>\nboth headquartered in Sioux Falls, run the two largest hospital systems and are the county&#8217;s<br \/>\nbiggest employers. Smithfield Foods operates a large pork-processing plant in Sioux Falls, one of<br \/>\nthe city&#8217;s oldest industrial employers, and the Sioux Falls School District is the largest<br \/>\npublic employer. Dell Rapids and Brandon each function as commuter suburbs with their own small<br \/>\nmanufacturing and retail bases. The county&#8217;s biggest annual event is the Sioux Empire Fair,<br \/>\nheld each summer at the W. H. Lyon Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls since 1936, running roughly from late<br \/>\nJuly into early August with a rodeo, livestock shows and headline concerts.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>The Dakota Territory legislature created Minnehaha County on 5 April 1862, and it organized a<br \/>\ncounty government in 1868. The name comes from the Sioux word Mnihaha, meaning &#8220;rapid<br \/>\nwater&#8221; or &#8220;waterfall,&#8221; a reference to the falls of the Big Sioux River at Sioux<br \/>\nFalls &mdash; not, despite the common mix-up, a translation of &#8220;laughing water.&#8221; Sioux<br \/>\nFalls itself grew around a quartzite quarrying industry after the Civil War, and Sioux Quartzite<br \/>\nfrom local pits rebuilt downtown Dell Rapids in stone after an 1880s fire destroyed its original<br \/>\nwooden buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Renner&#8217;s Nidaros Church, founded by Norwegian immigrants in 1868 and now on the National<br \/>\nRegister of Historic Places, is reportedly the oldest ELCA congregation in South Dakota. On 27<br \/>\nAugust 1927, Charles Lindbergh drew a crowd estimated at thirty to forty thousand people to Renner<br \/>\nduring his post-transatlantic-flight national tour.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstates 29 and 90 cross through Sioux Falls, meeting near downtown, with Interstate 229<br \/>\nlooping around the city&#8217;s east side. South Dakota Highways 11, 19, 38, 42 and 115 also run<br \/>\nthrough the county.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sioux Falls &mdash; the county seat itself, central to the county<\/li>\n<li>Brandon &mdash; about 5 miles east of Sioux Falls<\/li>\n<li>Dell Rapids &mdash; about 20 miles north of Sioux Falls<\/li>\n<li>Garretson &mdash; about 22 miles northeast of Sioux Falls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sioux Falls Regional Airport, also known as Joe Foss Field, sits on the city&#8217;s northeast<br \/>\nside and is the county&#8217;s only commercial airport. South Dakota has no Amtrak service; the<br \/>\nnearest Amtrak station is in St. Cloud, Minnesota, about 220 miles northeast.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Minnehaha County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits on South Dakota&#8217;s eastern border with Minnesota and Iowa, bordered by Moody, Lake,<br \/>\nMcCook, Turner and Lincoln counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Minnehaha County?<\/strong><br \/>\n197,214 at the 2020 census, with a 2025 estimate near 212,691 &mdash; South Dakota&#8217;s most<br \/>\npopulous county.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Minnehaha County?<\/strong><br \/>\n813.86 square miles (2,107.89 km2) in total, of which 806.85 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Minnehaha County?<\/strong><br \/>\nSioux Falls, South Dakota&#8217;s largest city, is the county seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Minnehaha County?<\/strong><br \/>\nEight cities &mdash; Sioux Falls, Brandon, Dell Rapids, Hartford, Crooks, Baltic, Garretson and<br \/>\nValley Springs &mdash; plus the towns of Colton, Humboldt and Sherman, and a scatter of smaller<br \/>\nCDPs and unincorporated communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Minnehaha County use?<\/strong><br \/>\nSioux Falls alone uses about 20 ZIP codes centred on 57104; the smaller cities each have their<br \/>\nown, from 57003 in Baltic to 57068 in Valley Springs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Minnehaha County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Sioux Falls quartzite falls that gave the city and county their name, and the Sioux Empire<br \/>\nFair, the state&#8217;s largest fair, held in Sioux Falls every summer.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/south-dakota\/\">Towns and villages in South Dakota<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnehaha County is a county in South Dakota, United States, on the state&rsquo;s eastern border with Minnesota and Iowa, anchored by Sioux Falls. 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