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South Dakota Public Records Search
South Dakota public records are kept by state agencies, the courts and county offices. RecordsDirectory.com lists the official statewide record offices for South Dakota and has a page for each of its 66 counties (combined 2024 population estimate: 924,669).
🏛 South Dakota Record Offices at a Glance
| State vital records office | South Dakota Department of Health – Vital Records Source: doh.sd.gov ↗ |
| Sex offender registry | South Dakota Sex Offender Registry Source: sor.sd.gov ↗ |
| Courts | South Dakota Unified Judicial System |
| Criminal cases | In South Dakota, all criminal cases are heard by the Circuit Court; magistrate courts within the Circuit Court handle misdemeanors and preliminary hearings. |
| Land records | In South Dakota, deeds, mortgages and other land records are recorded by the county Register of Deeds. |
| Divorce | Divorce cases in South Dakota are heard by the Circuit Court in each county. |
| Probate | Wills and estates in South Dakota are handled by the Circuit Court in each county. |
| Counties | Most South Dakota court, land and probate records are kept at the county level, so RecordsDirectory.com lists South Dakota records county by county. |
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Largest Counties
Minnehaha County
Pop. 208,639
Pennington County
Pop. 115,979
Lincoln County
Pop. 75,244
Brown County
Pop. 37,495
Brookings County
Pop. 36,359
Meade County
Pop. 30,918
Codington County
Pop. 29,278
Lawrence County
Pop. 28,809
Yankton County
Pop. 23,509
Davison County
Pop. 19,907
Beadle County
Pop. 19,459
Hughes County
Pop. 17,526
All 66 South Dakota Counties
Aurora County
Pop. 2,752
Beadle County
Pop. 19,459
Bennett County
Pop. 3,289
Bon Homme County
Pop. 7,071
Brookings County
Pop. 36,359
Brown County
Pop. 37,495
Brule County
Pop. 5,261
Buffalo County
Pop. 1,825
Butte County
Pop. 10,891
Campbell County
Pop. 1,342
Charles Mix County
Pop. 9,343
Clark County
Pop. 3,974
Clay County
Pop. 15,245
Codington County
Pop. 29,278
Corson County
Pop. 3,747
Custer County
Pop. 9,330
Davison County
Pop. 19,907
Day County
Pop. 5,408
Deuel County
Pop. 4,335
Dewey County
Pop. 5,322
Douglas County
Pop. 2,849
Edmunds County
Pop. 4,027
Fall River County
Pop. 7,359
Faulk County
Pop. 2,136
Grant County
Pop. 7,618
Gregory County
Pop. 4,110
Haakon County
Pop. 1,834
Hamlin County
Pop. 6,596
Hand County
Pop. 3,097
Hanson County
Pop. 3,477
Harding County
Pop. 1,325
Hughes County
Pop. 17,526
Hutchinson County
Pop. 7,416
Hyde County
Pop. 1,215
Jackson County
Pop. 2,737
Jerauld County
Pop. 1,689
Jones County
Pop. 874
Kingsbury County
Pop. 5,261
Lake County
Pop. 11,006
Lawrence County
Pop. 28,809
Lincoln County
Pop. 75,244
Lyman County
Pop. 3,721
Marshall County
Pop. 4,395
McCook County
Pop. 5,771
McPherson County
Pop. 2,307
Meade County
Pop. 30,918
Mellette County
Pop. 1,834
Miner County
Pop. 2,303
Minnehaha County
Pop. 208,639
Moody County
Pop. 6,529
Oglala Lakota County
Pop. 13,360
Pennington County
Pop. 115,979
Perkins County
Pop. 2,832
Potter County
Pop. 2,402
Roberts County
Pop. 10,283
Sanborn County
Pop. 2,392
Spink County
Pop. 6,108
Stanley County
Pop. 3,015
Sully County
Pop. 1,468
Todd County
Pop. 9,172
Tripp County
Pop. 5,717
Turner County
Pop. 9,087
Union County
Pop. 17,402
Walworth County
Pop. 5,270
Yankton County
Pop. 23,509
Ziebach County
Pop. 2,418
Largest South Dakota Cities & Towns
South Dakota has 1,384 cities, towns, villages and townships with their own page. These are the 120 largest; open a county above to see every community in it.
Aberdeen
Pop. 27,919
Aberdeen Township
Pop. 881
Agency Village
Pop. 980
Alcester
Pop. 772
Allen
Pop. 783
Arlington
Pop. 926
Ashland Heights
Pop. 1,105
Aurora
Pop. 1,159
Baltic
Pop. 1,331
Belle Fourche
Pop. 5,855
Beresford
Pop. 2,087
Big Sioux Township
Pop. 5,145
Blackhawk
Pop. 2,934
Boulder Canyon
Pop. 841
Box Elder
Pop. 13,887
Brandon
Pop. 10,837
Brandon Township
Pop. 771
Britton
Pop. 1,199
Brookings
Pop. 24,555
Canton
Pop. 2,974
Centerville
Pop. 958
Chamberlain
Pop. 2,453
Clark
Pop. 1,167
Clear Lake
Pop. 1,201
Colonial Pine Hills
Pop. 2,609
Crooks
Pop. 1,369
Custer
Pop. 1,829
Dakota Dunes
Pop. 3,936
De Smet
Pop. 1,037
Deadwood
Pop. 1,347
Delapre Township
Pop. 2,059
Dell Rapids
Pop. 3,825
Eagle Butte
Pop. 1,270
Elk Point
Pop. 2,074
Elkton
Pop. 778
Estelline
Pop. 768
Faulkton
Pop. 818
Flandreau
Pop. 2,372
Fort Pierre
Pop. 2,158
Fort Thompson
Pop. 1,147
Freeman
Pop. 1,308
Garretson
Pop. 1,169
Gettysburg
Pop. 1,062
Goodwill Township
Pop. 916
Green Valley
Pop. 1,642
Gregory
Pop. 1,270
Groton
Pop. 1,343
Harrisburg
Pop. 10,203
Hartford
Pop. 3,600
Highland Township
Pop. 804
Hill City
Pop. 937
Hot Springs
Pop. 3,608
Howard
Pop. 841
Huron
Pop. 14,515
Ipswich
Pop. 931
Jefferson Township
Pop. 1,209
Lake Madison
Pop. 936
Lake View Township
Pop. 817
Lead
Pop. 3,038
Lemmon
Pop. 1,141
Lennox
Pop. 2,539
Lincoln Township
Pop. 1,154
Madison
Pop. 6,086
Manderson-White Horse Creek
Pop. 833
Mapleton Township
Pop. 2,058
Marion
Pop. 880
Martin
Pop. 923
Meadow View Addition
Pop. 879
Medary Township
Pop. 1,532
Milbank
Pop. 3,545
Miller
Pop. 1,307
Mina
Pop. 767
Mission
Pop. 1,135
Mitchell
Pop. 15,621
Mobridge
Pop. 3,219
North Eagle Butte
Pop. 1,481
North Sioux City
Pop. 3,059
North Spearfish
Pop. 1,858
Oglala
Pop. 1,071
Parker
Pop. 1,306
Parkston
Pop. 1,542
Pelican Township
Pop. 764
Perry Township
Pop. 847
Piedmont
Pop. 1,002
Pierre
Pop. 13,788
Pine Ridge
Pop. 2,246
Plankinton
Pop. 763
Platte
Pop. 1,249
Rapid City
Pop. 79,894
Rapid Valley
Pop. 6,975
Redfield
Pop. 2,101
Rosebud
Pop. 1,659
Salem
Pop. 1,315
Scotland
Pop. 786
Sioux Falls
Pop. 209,289
Sisseton
Pop. 2,432
Sisseton Township
Pop. 787
Spearfish
Pop. 13,803
Split Rock Township
Pop. 3,074
Springdale Township
Pop. 2,195
Springfield
Pop. 1,912
Sturgis
Pop. 7,014
Summerset
Pop. 3,013
Sverdrup Township
Pop. 850
Tea
Pop. 7,699
Tyndall
Pop. 1,082
Valley Springs
Pop. 872
Vermillion
Pop. 11,877
Viborg
Pop. 834
Volga
Pop. 2,380
Wagner
Pop. 1,429
Wall Lake Township
Pop. 1,208
Watertown
Pop. 23,492
Wayne Township
Pop. 873
Webster
Pop. 1,666
Wessington Springs
Pop. 773
Whitewood
Pop. 965
Winner
Pop. 2,962
Worthing
Pop. 914
Yankton
Pop. 15,670